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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αἱμορραγὴς φλέψ. ἀλλʼ ἐάσωμεν, φίλοι,
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ἕκηλον αὐτόν, ὡς ἂν εἰς ὕπνον πέσῃ.
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Χορός
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Ὕπνʼ ὀδύνας ἀδαής, Ὕπνε δʼ ἀλγέων,
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εὐαὲς ἡμῖν ἔλθοις,
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εὐαίων εὐαίων, ὦναξ·
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ὄμμασι δʼ ἀντίσχοις
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τάνδʼ αἴγλαν, ἃ τέταται τανῦν.
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ἴθι ἴθι μοι παιών.
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ὦ τέκνον, ὅρα ποῦ στάσει,
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ποῖ δέ μοι τἀνθένδε βάσει,
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φροντίδος. ὁρᾷς ἤδη.
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πρὸς τί μενοῦμεν πράσσειν;
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καιρός τοι πάντων γνώμαν ἴσχων
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πολύ τι πολὺ παρὰ πόδα κράτος ἄρνυται.
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Νεοπτόλεμος
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ἀλλʼ ὅδε μὲν κλύει οὐδέν, ἐγὼ δʼ ὁρῶ οὕνεκα θήραν
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τήνδʼ ἁλίως ἔχομεν τόξων, δίχα τοῦδε πλέοντες.
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τοῦδε γὰρ ὁ στέφανος, τοῦτον θεὸς εἶπε κομίζειν.
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κομπεῖν δʼ ἔστʼ ἀτελῆ σὺν ψεύδεσιν αἰσχρὸν ὄνειδος.
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Χορός
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ἀλλά, τέκνον, τάδε μὲν θεὸς ὄψεται·
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ὧν δʼ ἂν ἀμείβῃ μʼ αὖθις,
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βαιάν μοι, βαιάν, ὦ τέκνον,
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πέμπε λόγων φάμαν·
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ὡς πάντων ἐν νόσῳ εὐδρακὴς
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ὕπνος ἄϋπνος λεύσσειν.
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ἀλλʼ ὅτι δύνᾳ μάκιστον
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κεῖνο δή μοι κεῖνο λάθρᾳ
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ἐξιδοῦ ὅπᾳ πράξεις.
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οἶσθα γὰρ ἃν αὐδῶμαι,
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εἰ ταύταν τούτων γνώμαν ἴσχεις,
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μάλα τοι ἄπορα πυκινοῖς ἐνιδεῖν πάθη.
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