Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Neoptolemus: Since thus it is, since virtue is oppressed,

And vice triumphant, who deserve to live
Are doomed to perish, and the guilty reign.
Henceforth, O son of Poeas! far from Troy
And the Atreidae will I live remote.
I would not see the man I cannot love.
My barren Scyros shall afford me refuge,
And home- felt joys delight my future days.
So, fare thee well, and may th' indulgent gods
Heal thy sad wound, and grant thee every wish
Thy soul can form! Once more, farewell! I go,
The first propitious gale.

Philoctetes: What! now, my son?
So soon?

Neoptolemus: Immediately; the time demands
We should be near, and ready to depart.

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