Philoctetes, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 2; Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1913.
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ἀπόλωλα, τέκνον· βρύκομαι, τέκνον· παπαῖ,
ἀπαππαπαῖ, παπαππαπαππαπαππαπαῖ.
πρὸς θεῶν, πρόχειρον εἴ τί σοι, τέκνον, πάρα
ξίφος χεροῖν, πάταξον εἰς ἄκρον πόδα·
ἀπάμησον ὡς τάχιστα· μὴ φείσῃ βίου. ἴθʼ, ὦ παῖ.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
τί δʼ ἔστιν οὕτω νεοχμὸν ἐξαίφνης, ὅτου
τοσήνδʼ ἰυγὴν καὶ στόνον σαυτοῦ ποεῖ;
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Φιλοκτήτης
οἶσθʼ, ὦ τέκνον;
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Νεοπτόλεμος
τί δʼ ἔστιν;
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Φιλοκτήτης
οἶσθʼ, ὦ παῖ;
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Νεοπτόλεμος
τί σοί;
οὐκ οἶδα.
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Φιλοκτήτης
πῶς οὐκ οἶσθα; παππαπαππαπαῖ.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
755
δεινόν γε τοὐπίσαγμα τοῦ νοσήματος.
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Φιλοκτήτης
δεινὸν γὰρ οὐδὲ ῥητόν· ἀλλʼ οἴκτιρέ με.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
τί δῆτα δράσω;
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Φιλοκτήτης
μή με ταρβήσας προδῷς·
ἥκει γὰρ αὕτη διὰ χρόνου πλάνοις ἴσως
ὡς ἐξεπλήσθη.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
ἰὼ ἰὼ δύστηνε σύ,
760
δύστηνε δῆτα διὰ πόνων πάντων φανείς.
βούλει λάβωμαι δῆτα καὶ θίγω τί σου;
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Φιλοκτήτης
μὴ δῆτα τοῦτό γʼ· ἀλλά μοι τὰ τόξʼ ἑλὼν
τάδʼ, ὥσπερ ᾐτοῦ μʼ ἀρτίως, ἕως ἀνῇ
765
τὸ πῆμα τοῦτο τῆς νόσου τὸ νῦν παρόν,
σῷζʼ αὐτὰ καὶ φύλασσε. λαμβάνει γὰρ οὖν
ὕπνος μʼ, ὅταν περ τὸ κακὸν ἐξίῃ τόδε·
κοὐκ ἔστι λῆξαι πρότερον· ἀλλʼ ἐᾶν χρεὼν
ἕκηλον εὕδειν. ἢν δὲ τῷδε τῷ χρόνῳ
770
μόλωσʼ ἐκεῖνοι, πρὸς θεῶν ἐφίεμαι
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