Well, I will go; thy counsel is not amiss. MESSENGER And I, shall I wait here? Or what is thy plea...
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DEIANEIRA O Zeus, who rulest the meads of Oeta, sacred from the scythe, at last, though late, thou...
430 BC THE TRACHINIAE by Sophocles transalated by R. C. Jebb CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY DEIANEIRA ...
Who have destroyed me, e'en the sons of Atreus, E'en with Ulysses, source of all my woes? My suffe...
And does Achilles' son Say this to me? NEOPTOLEMUS Why force me to repeat My words so often to t...
ULYSSES No more! I must be gone. PHILOCTETES (to NEOPTOLEMUS) Son of Achilles, Thou wilt not lea...
Beneath thy feet imploring? Base betrayer! To rob me of my bow, the means of life, The only means-...
O death! where art thou, death? so often called, Wilt thou not listen? wilt thou never come? Take ...
True; And 'tis against them too. PHILOCTETES Alas! no storms Can drive back fraud and rapine fro...
By thy loved mother, by whate'er remains On earth most dear to thee, oh! hear me now, Thy supplian...
Could to myself the means of life afford, In this poor grotto. On my bow I lived: The winged dove,...
NEOPTOLEMUS What, Ulysses? ULYSSES The glorious names of valiant and of wise. NEOPTOLEMUS Away!...
400 BC PHILOCTETES by Sophocles translated by Thomas Francklin CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ULYSSES, ...
The bridal chamber of the maid and Death, We sped, about to enter. But a guard Heard from that god...
CREON True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills. TEIRESIAS Thou art infected with that ill thyself. ...