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    Sophocles, Philoctetes (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | English (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | English (ed. Robert Torrance)
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    Odysseus

    This is the headland of sea-washed Lemnos, land untrodden by men and desolate. It was here, child bred of the man who was the noblest of the Greeks, Neoptolemus son of Achilles, that I exposed [5] long ago the native of Malis, Poeas' son, on the express command of the two chieftains to do so, because his foot was all running with a gnawing disease. Neither libation nor burnt sacrifice could be attempted by us in peace, but with his wild, ill-omened cries [10] he filled the whole camp continually with shrieking, moaning. But what need is there to speak of that? The time is not ripe for too many words, lest he even learn that I am here, and I so waste the whole ruse whereby I think soon to take him. [15] Come, it is your task to serve as my ally in what remains, and to seek where in this region there is a cave with two mouths. During cold weather it provides two seats facing the sun, while in summer a breeze wafts sleep through the tunnelled chamber. [20] And a little below, on the left hand, perhaps, you will see water rising from a spring, if it has not failed. Go there silently, and signal to me whether he still dwells in this same place, or is to be found elsewhere, so that the rest of my plan may be explained by me, heard by you, [25] and sped by the joint effort of us both.


    There are a total of 8 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
    line 1: aktê men hêde
    line 15: ergon &#ch2026; son
    line 5: exethêk

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    * [720-1043: Second episode]: all' ergon êdê son ta loiph' hupêretein
    * [1670-1750: Commos]: sos oikos bêsetai di' haimatos

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
    * [1098-1383]

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    289 [Interrogative Subjunctive.]: Pothen oun tis tautês arxêtai machês;

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    35, 464 [Subjunctive with an]

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Sophocles. The Philoctetes of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1898.
    OCLC: 39793726


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