Speaker 1: Part one of Philiptetes. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Philiktetes by Sophocles,
Speaker 1: translated by Lewis Campbell, Persons of the Drama Odysseus.
Speaker 2: Read by Bruce Pirie.
Speaker 1: Neptolemus read by M. B. Chorus of Mariners.
Speaker 3: Read by delmar H. Dolbier.
Speaker 1: Philiktetes rid by Algi pug Messenger disguised as a merchantman.
Speaker 4: Read by Martin Geeson.
Speaker 1: Heracles Appearing from the Sky read by Elizabeth Klett and
Speaker 1: narrated by Elizabeth Klett. Scene a desert shore of the
Speaker 1: island of Lemnos.
Speaker 2: This coast of seagurd Lemnos, where we stand, is uninhabited,
Speaker 2: untrodden of men. And here o noble son of noblest
Speaker 2: sire Achilles born Neoptolemus i erewhile ordered by those who
Speaker 2: had command, cast forth Trachinian Philoctetes poeas son, his foot dark,
Speaker 2: dripping with a rankling wound, when with wild cries that
Speaker 2: frighted Holy rest, filling the camp, he troubled every right
Speaker 2: that none might handle sacrifice or poor wine offering. But
Speaker 2: his noise disturbed our peace. But why these words? No
Speaker 2: moment this for talk lest he discern my coming, and
Speaker 2: I lose the scheme. Wherewith I think to catch him soon?
Speaker 2: Now most behooves thy service to explore this headland for
Speaker 2: a cave with double mouth, whose twofold aperture on wintry
Speaker 2: days gives choice of sunshine, and in summer noons the
Speaker 2: breeze wafts slumber through the airy cell. Then something lower
Speaker 2: down upon the left, unless tis dried. Thine eye may
Speaker 2: note a spring. Go near now silently and make me
Speaker 2: know if still he persevere and hold this spot, or
Speaker 2: have roamed elsewhere. That Informed of this, I may proceed
Speaker 2: with what remains to say, and we may act in concert.
Speaker 5: Lord Odysseus, thy foremost errant, will not task me far
Speaker 5: the things I see the cave where up thou speakest.
Speaker 2: Where let me see it above there or below yonder above.
Speaker 1: And yet I hear no dread Neoptolemus climbs up to
Speaker 1: the cave.
Speaker 2: Look if he be not lodged in slumber.
Speaker 5: There I find no inmate but an empty room.
Speaker 2: What no provision for a dwelling place.
Speaker 5: A bed of leaves for someone harboring.
Speaker 2: Here, naught else. Beneath the roof is all forlorn, a.
Speaker 5: Cup of wood, some untaught craftsman's skill, and close at
Speaker 5: hand these embers of a fire.
Speaker 2: That store is his, And I read the token clearer.
Speaker 5: Oh, in these festering rags give evidence steeped as with
Speaker 5: dressing some malignant sore.
Speaker 2: The man inhabits here, I know it now, and sure
Speaker 2: he's not far off. How can he range whose limb
Speaker 2: drags heavy with an ancient harm? But he's gone, either
Speaker 2: to bring forage home, or where he hath found some
Speaker 2: plant of healing power. Send therefore, thine attendant, to look forth,
Speaker 2: lest unawares he find me. All our hosts were not
Speaker 2: so fair a prize for him as I.
Speaker 5: My man is going, and to watch the path. What
Speaker 5: more dost thou require of me?
Speaker 2: Speak on, son of Achilles, Know that thou art come
Speaker 2: to serve us nobly, not with strength alone, but faithful
Speaker 2: to thy mission. If so be to do things strange
Speaker 2: unwonted to thine.
Speaker 5: Ear, what dost thou bid me?
Speaker 2: Tis thy duty? Now to entrap the mind of poeas
Speaker 2: son with words, when he shall ask THEE who, and
Speaker 2: whence thou art declare thy name and father? Tis not
Speaker 2: that I charge THEE to conceal, but for thy voyage
Speaker 2: tis homeward, leaving thee Achaian host with perfect hatred, hating them,
Speaker 2: because they who had drawn THEE with strong prayers from
Speaker 2: home their hope for taking Troy, allowed THEE not thy
Speaker 2: just demand to have thy father's arms. But ere thy
Speaker 2: coming wrongly gave them aar unto Odysseus, and thereon launch
Speaker 2: forth with boundless execration against me that will not pain me.
Speaker 2: But if thou reject this counsel, thou wilt trouble all
Speaker 2: our host, since if his bow shall not be tain
Speaker 2: thy life will ne'er be crowned through Troy's discomfiture. Now
Speaker 2: let me show why thine approach to him is safe
Speaker 2: and trustful, as mine cannot be. Thou didst sail forth
Speaker 2: not to redeem thine oath, nor by constraint, nor with
Speaker 2: the foremost band all which reproaches I must bear, and
Speaker 2: he but seeing me, while master of his bow, will
Speaker 2: slay me, and my ruin will be thine. This point, then,
Speaker 2: craves our cunning to acquire by subtle means the irresistible bow.
Speaker 2: Thy nature was not framed, I know it well for
Speaker 2: speaking falsehood or contriving harm. Ye, Yet, since the prize
Speaker 2: of victory is so dear and cure, it will be
Speaker 2: just another day. But now, for one brief hour, devote
Speaker 2: thyself to serve me without shame, And then for I
Speaker 2: hereafter be the pearl of righteousness.
Speaker 5: The thing that being named revolts mine, ear son of Laerties,
Speaker 5: I abhorred to do. Tis not my nature. No, nor
Speaker 5: as they tell my fathers to work, aught by craft
Speaker 5: and guile, I'll undertake to bring him in by force,
Speaker 5: not by deceit. For sure, with his one foot he
Speaker 5: cannot be a match for all our crew. Being sent
Speaker 5: my Lord to serve thee, I am loath to see rebellious,
Speaker 5: But I rather choose to offend with honor than to
Speaker 5: win by wrong.
Speaker 2: Son of a valiant sire, I too, in youth had
Speaker 2: once a slow tongue and an active hand. But since
Speaker 2: I have proved the world, I clearly see words and
Speaker 2: not deeds, give mastery over men.
Speaker 5: What then is thy command to lie?
Speaker 2: No more to entangle philoctitis with deceit.
Speaker 5: Why through deceit may not persuasion fetch.
Speaker 2: Him never and force as certainly will fail.
Speaker 5: What lends him such assurance of defense.
Speaker 2: Arrows the unerring harbingers of death.
Speaker 5: Then to go near him is a perilous.
Speaker 2: Thing, unless with subtlety, as I have said, and.
Speaker 5: Is not lying shameful to thy soul?
Speaker 2: Not if by lying I can save my soul?
Speaker 5: How must one look in speaking such a word?
Speaker 2: Where gain invites this shrinking is not good?
Speaker 5: Well? What gain I? Through his coming back to Troy.
Speaker 2: His arms alone have power to take Troy Town?
Speaker 5: Then am not either spoiler?
Speaker 2: As he said, Thou without them, they without THEE are powerless.
Speaker 5: If it be so, they must be sought and won.
Speaker 2: Yea, in this two prizes will be thine.
Speaker 5: What when I learn them? I will not.
Speaker 2: Refuse wisdom and valor joined in one good name.
Speaker 5: Ha shame to the winds. Come, I will do this thing.
Speaker 2: Say, dost thou bear my bidding foe in mind?
Speaker 5: Doubt not, since once for all I have embraced it.
Speaker 2: Thou, then await him here. I will retire, for fear
Speaker 2: my hated presence should be known, and take back our
Speaker 2: attendant to the ship. And then once more, should ye
Speaker 2: appear to waste the time unduly, I will send again
Speaker 2: this same man, hither in disguise transformed to the strange
Speaker 2: semblance of a merchantman from dark suggestion of whose crafty tongue, Thou, o,
Speaker 2: my son, shalt gather timely counsel now to my ship.
Speaker 2: This charge I leave to thee may secret hermes guide
Speaker 2: us to our end and civic palace named of victory,
Speaker 2: the sure protectress of my evious way.
Speaker 1: Chorus entering strange and stranger land.
Speaker 3: What I speak, what hide for heart vicious? Tell you
Speaker 3: you must mine why all the man pills and search
Speaker 3: and thought, who, with the zeus given wan weird of
Speaker 3: the heaven said power, listened sun fought with ancestral might
Speaker 3: this thy life have come where indeed to declare what
Speaker 3: must I do for thy need?
Speaker 5: Even now I think'st thou longest to aspine your ocean's merge,
Speaker 5: the place where he doth lie gaze without fear. But
Speaker 5: when the traveler stern, who from this roof is parted,
Speaker 5: shall return advancing still as I the signal give to
Speaker 5: serve each moment's mission thou shalt strive that for.
Speaker 3: My son from old hath been my to take note
Speaker 3: what by thy bettoning is told still thy success to promote.
Speaker 3: But for our errand to day the who see master,
Speaker 3: to say, where is the hearth of his home?
Speaker 6: Or where even.
Speaker 3: Now doth he roam? Oh tell me less all unaware
Speaker 3: his spring like a wolf from his air, And I,
Speaker 3: my surprise should be ten, where doth he move or
Speaker 3: remain here, lodging or wandering away?
Speaker 5: Thou seest yon double doorway of his cell, poor habitation
Speaker 5: of the rock.
Speaker 3: But tell where is the pain worn white himself? Abroad?
Speaker 3: To me?
Speaker 5: It is clear that in his quest for food, he's
Speaker 5: not far off, he tells yon furrowed path. For so
Speaker 5: tis told this mode the sufferer hath of sustenance, Oh hardness,
Speaker 5: bringing low wild creatures with winged arrows from his bow,
Speaker 5: Nor findeth healer for his troublous woe.
Speaker 3: I feel his misery with no companion, I are all
Speaker 3: human care. Hepines with fell disease, each warty hourly seas
Speaker 3: awakeningly despair. Oh can he very still o cruel heavens,
Speaker 3: Oh pain that afflicted mortal train whose life sharp sorrows,
Speaker 3: sill born in a princely hall, highest perchance all now
Speaker 3: lies he comfortless, alone, in deep distress, most rough and dabbling,
Speaker 3: brutes with pangs and hunger worn, while from far distant
Speaker 3: shoots on airy pinion worn, the unbridal echo, still replying
Speaker 3: to his most bitter crying.
Speaker 5: At not of this I marvel, for, if I judge rightly,
Speaker 5: there assailed him from on high, that former plague, through chrisis,
Speaker 5: cruel sting. And if to day he suffer anything with
Speaker 5: none to soothe, it must be from the will of
Speaker 5: some great God, so caring to fulfill the word of Prophecy,
Speaker 5: lest he should bend on Troy the shaft. No mortal
Speaker 5: may for offend before the arrival of Troy's destined hour,
Speaker 5: when she must fall overmastered by their power.
Speaker 3: Hush, my son, Why so a sound gendered of some
Speaker 3: mortal woe started from the neighboring ground here or there?
Speaker 3: Now I know hark t is the voice of one
Speaker 3: in pain, traveling hardly, the deep strain of human anguish
Speaker 3: all too clear, that smites my heart, that wounds mine
Speaker 3: ear far appeals what think again? He was nigh He
Speaker 3: holds the region not with total a chance, with mortal
Speaker 3: pain or wild amaze, as ye your ship surveys unwanted
Speaker 3: on the inhospitable man.
Speaker 1: Enter Philip teties, Oh.
Speaker 6: What men are ye that to this desert shore, harborless, uninhabited?
Speaker 6: I come on shipboard of what country or what race?
Speaker 6: Shall I pronounce? Ye? For your outward garb is Grecian,
Speaker 6: Ever dearest to this heart that hungers now to hear
Speaker 6: your voices, tune, ah, do not fear me, Do not
Speaker 6: shrink away from my wild looks, but pitying one so poor,
Speaker 6: forlorn and desolate, in nameless woe speak, If with friendly
Speaker 6: purpose ye are come, Oh answer tis not meet that
Speaker 6: I should lose this kindness from your lips, For ye
Speaker 6: from mine.
Speaker 5: Then, nor this first or stranger, as thou woodst that
Speaker 5: we are Greeks.
Speaker 6: Ah, dear dear name ah me in all these years,
Speaker 6: once only once I hear it, my son, What fairest
Speaker 6: gale hath wafted thee? What need hath brought thee to
Speaker 6: the shore? What mission? Declare all? List? That I may
Speaker 6: know thee well?
Speaker 5: The sea girt Skyros is my native home. Thitherward I
Speaker 5: make my voyage, Achilles' son, named Neoptolemus.
Speaker 6: I have told thee all dear is that sure to me?
Speaker 6: Dear is thy father, oh ancient lycomedes foster child. Whence
Speaker 6: camest thou Hither? How didst thou set.
Speaker 5: Forth from Troy we met our course in sailing? Hither?
Speaker 6: How sure thou wast not with us? When at first
Speaker 6: we launched our vessels on the troy ward way?
Speaker 5: Hadst thou share in that adventuress toil?
Speaker 6: And know'st thou not whom thou hold'st in me? Young boy?
Speaker 5: How should I know him? Whom I nurse set eigh on?
Speaker 6: Hast not even her my name, nor echoing rumor of
Speaker 6: my ruinous woe, No, no.
Speaker 5: Not of all thy questioning.
Speaker 6: How full of griefs am I? How heaven abhorred wheen
Speaker 6: of my piteous state? No faintest sound hath reach'd my
Speaker 6: home or any Grecian land. But they who pitilessly cast
Speaker 6: me forth keep silence, and I glad while this my
Speaker 6: plague blooms ever, and his strengthened more and more. Boy,
Speaker 6: great achilles offspring, in this form, thou seest the man
Speaker 6: of whom methinks Erewhile thou hast been told to whom
Speaker 6: the Herculean bou descended Philoctiti's poeas son, whom the two
Speaker 6: generals and the Ithagan king cast out thus shamefully forlorn,
Speaker 6: afflicted with the fierce malady and desperate wound made by
Speaker 6: the cruel Basilisk's murderous tooth. With this for company, they
Speaker 6: left me cha out, expos'd upon the shore, deserted lone
Speaker 6: from seaward chryser came they with their fleet, and touch'd
Speaker 6: at Lemnos. I had fallen to rest from the long
Speaker 6: tossing in a shadowy cave on yonder cliff by the shore.
Speaker 6: Gladly they saw and left me, having set forth for
Speaker 6: my need poor man, some scanty rags and a thin
Speaker 6: store of provender. Such food be theirs, I pray, imagine, O,
Speaker 6: my son, when they were gone, What wakening? What arising then?
Speaker 6: Was mine? What weeping? What lamenting of my woe? When
Speaker 6: I beheld the ships wherewith I sail'd gone, one and all,
Speaker 6: and no man in the place, none to bestead me,
Speaker 6: none to comfort me in my sore sickness, And where'er
Speaker 6: I look'd naught but distress was present with me still
Speaker 6: no lack of that for one thing, Ah, my son,
Speaker 6: Time past, and there I found myself alone within my
Speaker 6: narrow lodging, forced to serve each pressing need for body sustenance.
Speaker 6: This bow supplied me with sufficient store wounding the feathered doves.
Speaker 6: And when the shaft from the tight string had struck myself,
Speaker 6: I me, dragging this foot, would crawl to my swift prey.
Speaker 6: Then water must be fetch'd, and in sharp frost wood
Speaker 6: must be found and broken all by me. Nor would
Speaker 6: fire come unbidden. But with flint, from flint's striking dim sparks,
Speaker 6: I hammered forth the struggling flame that keeps the life
Speaker 6: in me for house room, with the single help of fire,
Speaker 6: gives all I need, save healing for my sore. Now, learn,
Speaker 6: my son, the nature of this isle. No manner puts
Speaker 6: in here willingly, for it hath neither morage, nor sea
Speaker 6: port for traffic, or kind shelter or good cheer. Not
Speaker 6: hither would do prudent men make voyage. Perchance one may
Speaker 6: have touch'd against his will. Many chance things may happen
Speaker 6: in a long time. These, when they come in words,
Speaker 6: have pitied me and given me food or raiment in compassion.
Speaker 6: But none is willing when I speak thereof, to take
Speaker 6: me safely home. Wherefore I pine now this tenth year
Speaker 6: in famine and distress, feeding the hunger of my ravenous plague.
Speaker 6: Such deeds my son, their tready and the might of
Speaker 6: Sage Odysseus have perform'd on me. Wherefore may all Olympian
Speaker 6: gods one day plague them with stern requital for my
Speaker 6: wrong merits.
Speaker 3: My feeling for ye poys child is like that of
Speaker 3: thy former visitance.
Speaker 5: I too a witness to confirm his words, know them
Speaker 5: for verities. Since I found the Atreday and Odysseus evil men.
Speaker 6: Art thou too wroth with the old pistilent sons of betrayers?
Speaker 6: Have they given me cause to grieve?
Speaker 5: Would that my hand might ease the wrath I feel?
Speaker 5: Ben Sparta and Mycene should beware that Scyros too breeds
Speaker 5: valiant sons for war.
Speaker 6: Brave youth, I love thee Tell me the great cause
Speaker 6: why thou invest against them with such heat.
Speaker 5: O, son of Poeas hardly shall I tell what outrage
Speaker 5: I endured when I had come. Yet I will speak
Speaker 5: it when the fate of death o'ertook Achilles.
Speaker 6: Out aless no more, hold till thou first hast made
Speaker 6: me clearly know is pelias offspring dead.
Speaker 5: Alas he is slain by no mortal felt by phoebus shaft.
Speaker 6: Some men reported, well, right, princely was he, and princely
Speaker 6: is he who slew him? Shall I mourn him first?
Speaker 6: Or wait till I have heard thy tale?
Speaker 5: I think'st thou hast thyself enough to mourn without the
Speaker 5: burden of another's woe.
Speaker 6: Well spoken, Then renew thine own complaint and tell once
Speaker 6: more wherein they insulted thee They.
Speaker 5: Came to fetch me in a gallant ship, Odysseus and
Speaker 5: the fosterer of my sire, saying, whether soothly or an idle,
Speaker 5: show that since my father perished, it was known none
Speaker 5: else but I should take Troy's citadel. Such words from them,
Speaker 5: my friend, thou mayst believe, held me not long from
Speaker 5: making voyage with speed, chiefly through longing for my father's
Speaker 5: course to see him yet unburied, for I ne'er had
Speaker 5: seen him then. Besides, twas a fair cause if by
Speaker 5: my going I should vanquish Troy. One day I had sailed,
Speaker 5: and on the second came to sad Sagium with wind
Speaker 5: favored speed. When straightway all the hosts surrounding me as
Speaker 5: I set foot on shore, saluted me and swore the
Speaker 5: dead Achilles was in life, their eyes being witnessed when
Speaker 5: they looked on me. He lay there in his shroud,
Speaker 5: But I unhappy, soon, ending lamentation for the dead, went
Speaker 5: near to those a tree day as to friends to
Speaker 5: obtain my father's armor and all else that had been his.
Speaker 5: And then, alas the while that men should be so hard,
Speaker 5: they spake this word, seed of Achilles, thou mayst freely
Speaker 5: take all else thy father owned, but for these arms
Speaker 5: another wields them. Now Layerti's son. Well, tears rushed into
Speaker 5: mine eyes, and in hot wrath, I straightway rose and
Speaker 5: bitterly outspake, O, miscreant what? And have ye dared to
Speaker 5: give mine arms to some man else? Unknown to me?
Speaker 5: Then said Odysseus, for he chanced to be near yea child,
Speaker 5: And justly have they given me these? I save them
Speaker 5: and their master in the field. Then, in fierce anger,
Speaker 5: all at once I launched all terms of execration at
Speaker 5: his head, baiting no word. Being maddened by the thought
Speaker 5: that I should lose this heirloom and him he at
Speaker 5: his past, though not of wrathful mood. Stung by such utterance,
Speaker 5: made rejoinder. Thus thou wast not with us here, but
Speaker 5: wrongfully didst by afar. And since thou may'st so bold,
Speaker 5: I tell thee, never shalt thou, as thou sayest, sail
Speaker 5: with these arms to skyri Us thus reviled with such
Speaker 5: an evil echo in mine ear I voyage homeward, robbed
Speaker 5: of my own right by that vile offset of an
Speaker 5: evil tree. Yet less I blame him than the men
Speaker 5: in power. For every multitude, be it army or state,
Speaker 5: takes tone from those who rule it, and all taintive
Speaker 5: disobedience from bad counsel springs. I have spoken. Maybe a
Speaker 5: tredy's enemy be as dear to Heaven as he is
Speaker 5: loved by me.
Speaker 6: Mother might use.
Speaker 3: Who from my mounted breast rivers of gold doth give
Speaker 3: truly earth. I cried as shamefully when insolence from suns
Speaker 3: went forth for our lord frown Odysseus worth now both
Speaker 3: slaughtering lions yoke to bear, Oh Mighty Mother, here.
Speaker 6: Your coming is commended by a grief that makes you
Speaker 6: kindly welcome. For I feel a cord that vibrates to
Speaker 6: your voice and tells. Thus have Odysseus and their trea
Speaker 6: day wrought full well? I know Odysseus's poisoned tongue shrinks
Speaker 6: from no mischief or no guile, full word that leads
Speaker 6: to bad achievement. In the end, this moves not my
Speaker 6: main marble. But if one saw this un board it,
Speaker 6: Ayus said the shield.
Speaker 5: Ah, friend, he was no more had he but lived
Speaker 5: this robbery, had ne'er been wrought on me?
Speaker 6: What is he too departed?
Speaker 5: He's dead? The light no more beholds him.
Speaker 6: Oh Alas, But Tadeus's offspring and the rascal birth lay
Speaker 6: at his sport of Sisyphus. They live, I know it.
Speaker 6: For their death were to be wished.
Speaker 5: Yea be assured. They live and flourish high exalted in
Speaker 5: the host of argive men and Nestor.
Speaker 6: My old friend, good aged man, is he yet living
Speaker 6: oft he would prevent the evils by the wisdom of
Speaker 6: his thought.
Speaker 5: He too is now in trouble, having lost Antilochus the
Speaker 5: comfort of his age.
Speaker 6: There there in one brief word, thou hast revealed the
Speaker 6: mournful case of Twain, whom I would last have chosen
Speaker 6: to hear of, as undone ah me, where must one look?
Speaker 6: When these are dead? And he Odysseus lives, and in
Speaker 6: a time like this that craves their presence and his
Speaker 6: death for theirs.
Speaker 5: He wrestles cleverly, But oh, my friend, even ablest wits
Speaker 5: are ofttimes snared at last.
Speaker 6: Tell me I pray what was become of him? Petroclus,
Speaker 6: whom thy father loved so well, he too was gone.
Speaker 5: I'll teach thee in a word one truth, for all
Speaker 5: war does not willingly snatch off the wicked, but still
Speaker 5: takes the good true.
Speaker 6: And to prove thy saying, I will inquire the fate
Speaker 6: of a poor dustard of mean worth, but ever shrewd
Speaker 6: and nimble with his tongue.
Speaker 5: Whom but Odysseus canst thou mean by this?
Speaker 6: I meant not him. But there was one thr Sightes,
Speaker 6: who ne'er made conscience distint speech, where all cried silence?
Speaker 6: Is he living? Dost thou know?
Speaker 5: I saw him not? But knew he was alive?
Speaker 6: He must be, for no evil yet was crushed. The
Speaker 6: heavens will ever shield. It tis their sport to turn
Speaker 6: back all things rancors and malign from going down to
Speaker 6: the grave, and send instead the good and true. Oh,
Speaker 6: how shall we commend such dealings? How defend them? When
Speaker 6: I praise things god like, I find evil in the gods.
Speaker 5: Ay O, thou child of a your Chinian sire henceforth
Speaker 5: will take good care from far away to look on
Speaker 5: troy and atrious children. Twain yea, were the trickster lords
Speaker 5: it or the just and goodness languishes and Rascal's rule,
Speaker 5: such course as I will never more endure, but rock
Speaker 5: bound scyros henceforth shall suffice to yield me for contentment
Speaker 5: in my home. Now to my vessel, and thou poeest child,
Speaker 5: farewell right heartily, farewell, Nay, Heaven grant thy desire andt
Speaker 5: rid thee of thy plague. Let us be going that
Speaker 5: when God shall give fair voyage, that moment we may
Speaker 5: launch away My son.
Speaker 6: Are ye now setting forth.
Speaker 5: Our time bids us go nearer and look to sail
Speaker 5: ere long.
Speaker 6: Now by thy Father, by thy mother, nay, by all
Speaker 6: thy love, ere cherish'd in thy home, suppliant I beg
Speaker 6: THEE leave me not thus alone, forlorn in all my
Speaker 6: misery which thou seest, and all thou hast heard of
Speaker 6: here surrounding me, Stow me with other frate age, full
Speaker 6: of care I know, and burdensome. The charge may prove
Speaker 6: yet venture. Surely to the noble mind, all shame is hateful,
Speaker 6: and all kindness blest, and shame would be thy maid.
Speaker 6: Didst thou fail here? But doing this thou shalt have
Speaker 6: glorious fame when I return alive to our ata's veil.
Speaker 6: Come tis the labor not of one whole day. So
Speaker 6: thou dst take me, fling me where thou wilt o'er
Speaker 6: the ship in hold prau stern, or wheresoe'er I least
Speaker 6: may trouble those on board with me. Ah, by great
Speaker 6: zeus the Suppliant's friend, comply, my son, be soften'd see
Speaker 6: where I am fallen thus on my knees before thee,
Speaker 6: though so weak, crippled and powerless, AH, forsake me not
Speaker 6: thus far from human footstep. Take me, Take me, if
Speaker 6: only to thy home or to the town of old
Speaker 6: chalcodon in you boyer. From thence I have not far
Speaker 6: to eat, and the ridge of charkis and sperchius lordly flood.
Speaker 6: So thou shalt bless my father with my sight. And
Speaker 6: yet long since I fear he may be gone for oft,
Speaker 6: I sent him suppliant prayers by men who touch'd this isle,
Speaker 6: entreating him to fetch and bear me safely home with
Speaker 6: his his own crew. But either he is dead or else.
Speaker 6: Methinks it may well be. My messengers made light of
Speaker 6: my concerns and hastened onward home. But now in thee
Speaker 6: I find both messenger and convoy. Thou wilt pity me
Speaker 6: and save for well. Thou knowest danger never sleeps, and
Speaker 6: fear of dark reverse is always nigh. Mortals, when free,
Speaker 6: should look where mischief lurks, and in the happiest hour
Speaker 6: consider well their life lest ruin unsuspected come him.
Speaker 3: Oh my king war friends, and you fear mysel missus,
Speaker 3: mis true heart, and nor hair.
Speaker 6: I would turn in their.
Speaker 3: Land eel to his wood, on swift ship to his
Speaker 3: native or heart desire. I am free, thy heart, feel
Speaker 3: of heavenly wrath.
Speaker 5: Thou make'st small scruple here, But be advised lest when
Speaker 5: this plague on board shall weary thee Thy voice should
Speaker 5: alter from this liberal tone.
Speaker 3: No truly fail Thou not shalt ever have just cause
Speaker 3: to utter such reproach on me?
Speaker 5: Then, for shame should I more backward prove them Now
Speaker 5: to labor for the stranger's need. Come, if thou wilt,
Speaker 5: let us make voyage, and he let him set forth
Speaker 5: with speed our ship shall take him. He shall not
Speaker 5: be refused. Only may Heaven lead safely hence and to
Speaker 5: our destined.
Speaker 6: Port, Oh, mourning full of brightness, kindest friend, sweet mariners,
Speaker 6: how can I make you feel? Enact how dearly from
Speaker 6: my heart I love you? Ye have won my soul.
Speaker 6: Let us be gone, my son, first having said farewell
Speaker 6: to this poor cave, my homeless dwelling place. Thou mayst
Speaker 6: know how barely I have lived, how firm my heart
Speaker 6: methinks another could not have endured the very sight of
Speaker 6: what I bore, but I, through strong necessity of conquered pain.
Speaker 3: Say, let us understand, there come two men stranger with
Speaker 3: a shipmaider of thy crew. When he heard them, man go.
Speaker 1: In enter messenger disguised as a merchantman.
Speaker 4: Son of Achilles, my companion here who with two more
Speaker 4: remained to guard thy ship, agreed to help me find
Speaker 4: thee where thou wert, Since unexpectedly, through fortune's will, I
Speaker 4: meet thee mooring by the self same shore. For like
Speaker 4: a merchantman with no great sail, making my course from
Speaker 4: Ilion to my home grape clustered Bepparethos. When I heard
Speaker 4: the marriage declare that one and all were of thy crew,
Speaker 4: I would not launch again without a word till we
Speaker 4: had told our news. Methinkst thou knowest nought of thine
Speaker 4: own case? What new devices of the ark i've chiefs
Speaker 4: surround thee? Nor devices only now, but active deeds no
Speaker 4: longer unperformed?
Speaker 5: What stranger for the kindness thou hast shown us were
Speaker 5: I base? My heart must thank thee still? But tell
Speaker 5: me what thou meanest, that I may learn what new
Speaker 5: aid plot thou bring'st me from the camp.
Speaker 4: Old Phoenix, Achamas and Demophon are gone in thy pursuit
Speaker 4: with ships and men to.
Speaker 5: Bring me back with reasons or perforce.
Speaker 4: I know not what I heard. I am here to
Speaker 4: tell how?
Speaker 5: And is a snacked are they sent forth to please
Speaker 5: the atre day Phoenix and the rest?
Speaker 4: The thing is not to do but doing now.
Speaker 5: What kept Odysseus back, if this be so, from going himself,
Speaker 5: had he some cause for fear?
Speaker 4: He and the son of Tedious, when our ship hoists sail,
Speaker 4: were gone to fetch another man?
Speaker 5: For whom could he himself be sailing for?
Speaker 4: For some one? But first tell me, whispering low, whate'er
Speaker 4: thou speakest?
Speaker 7: Who is this?
Speaker 4: I see?
Speaker 5: This, sir, is philop Titi's, the.
Speaker 1: Renowned aside to Neaptolemus.
Speaker 4: Without more question, snatch thyself away and sail forth from
Speaker 4: this land?
Speaker 6: What saith he boy? Through? What dark traffic? Is the
Speaker 6: manner betraying me with whispering in thine ear?
Speaker 5: I have not caught it. But whate'er he speaks, he
Speaker 5: must speak openly to us.
Speaker 4: And the seed of Achilles. Let me not offend the
Speaker 4: army by my words, full many a boon, being poor,
Speaker 4: I reap from them for service done.
Speaker 5: The Atreda are my foes. The man you see is
Speaker 5: my fast friend, because he hates them sore. Then if
Speaker 5: you come in kindness, you must hide nothing from him
Speaker 5: or me. Of all thou hast heard.
Speaker 4: Look whatst thou doest, my son?
Speaker 5: I mark it well?
Speaker 4: Thou shalt be answerable content, but speak, then hear me.
Speaker 4: These two men, whom I have named Diomedes and Odysseus,
Speaker 4: are set forth engaged on the oath to bring this
Speaker 4: man by force if reasons fail. The Achaians every one
Speaker 4: have heard this plainly from odysseus mouth. He was the
Speaker 4: louder and more confident.
Speaker 5: Save for what cause, after so long a time can
Speaker 5: atrious sons have turned their thoughts on him, whom long
Speaker 5: they had cast forth? What passing touch of conscience move them?
Speaker 5: Or what's stroke from heaven? Whose wrath requites all wicked
Speaker 5: deeds of men?
Speaker 4: Methinks thou hast not heard what I will now unfold
Speaker 4: to thee. There was a princely seer, a son of
Speaker 4: priam Helenus, by name whom he for whom no word
Speaker 4: is bad enough. Crafty Odysseus, sullying forth alone one night,
Speaker 4: had taken and in bonds display'd for all the Achaeans,
Speaker 4: a right noble prey. He made his other prophecies foretold
Speaker 4: no Grecian force should sack Troy's citadel till with their
Speaker 4: reasons they had brought this man from Lemnos Isle, his
Speaker 4: lonely dwelling place. When thus the prophet spake, Laertes's sons
Speaker 4: straight undertook to fetch this man and show him to
Speaker 4: all the camp He hop'd with fair consent, but else perforce,
Speaker 4: And if he fail'd in this, whoe' a WoT might
Speaker 4: smite him on the head. My tale is told, dear youth,
Speaker 4: I counsel speed to thee and to the friend for
Speaker 4: whom thou cast.
Speaker 6: Ah me unhappy? Has that rascal knave sworn to fetch
Speaker 6: me with reasons to their camp? As likely might his
Speaker 6: reasons bring me back like his Spagetta from the house
Speaker 6: of death.
Speaker 4: You talk of what I know not, I will go shipward.
Speaker 4: May God be with you for all good?
Speaker 6: Accept Is this not terrible? Laerti's son should ever think
Speaker 6: to bring me with soft words and show me from
Speaker 6: his deck to all their host No sooner will I
Speaker 6: listen to the tongue of the cursed Basilisk that thus
Speaker 6: hath maimed me. Ah, maybe he'll venture anything in word
Speaker 6: or deed, And now I know he will be here.
Speaker 6: Come o, my son, let us be gone, while seas
Speaker 6: and winds divide us from Odysseus's ship. Let us depart
Speaker 6: surely timely haste brings rest and quiet slumber when the
Speaker 6: toil is done, Shall.
Speaker 5: We not sail when the southwestern wind hath fallen, that
Speaker 5: now is adverse to our course?
Speaker 6: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.
Speaker 5: Nay, but this headwind hinders them no less.
Speaker 6: No headwind hinders pirates on their way when violence and
Speaker 6: rapine lead them on.
Speaker 5: Well, then let us be going, if you will, when
Speaker 5: you've taken from within the cave what most you need
Speaker 5: and value.
Speaker 6: Though my awe be little there is that I may
Speaker 6: not lose.
Speaker 5: What can there be that we have not on board?
Speaker 6: Alif I have found wherewith I still the rage of
Speaker 6: my sore plague, and lull it quite to rest?
Speaker 5: Well, bring it forth? What is there something more?
Speaker 6: If any of these arrows here have fallen, I would
Speaker 6: not leave them for a casual prey.
Speaker 5: Haw Do I see thee with the marvelous bow.
Speaker 6: Here in my hand? The world hath only one?
Speaker 5: And may one touch and handle it and gaze with
Speaker 5: reverence as on a thing from heaven.
Speaker 6: Thou mayst my son this, and what a'er of mine
Speaker 6: mayst deead? THEE tis thy privilege to enjoy very truth.
Speaker 5: I'd long for it, so that long waits on leave.
Speaker 6: Am I permitted Thou art my son, and well thou
Speaker 6: speakest Thou art, Thou that hast given me light and life,
Speaker 6: the joy of seeing Mount O't and my father's home
Speaker 6: with all I loved there, and his aged head. Thou
Speaker 6: that hast raised me far above my foes who triumphed.
Speaker 6: Thou mayst take it in thine hand. And when thou
Speaker 6: hast given it back to me, mayst vaunt alone of
Speaker 6: mores for thine excellence to have hold this in thy touch.
Speaker 6: I too, at first received it as a boon for
Speaker 6: kindness done well, go with me, Nay, I must take
Speaker 6: thee too. My sickness craves thee for its comforter.
Speaker 1: Philiptitis and neoptolemus go into the cave and of Part
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Speaker 1: bi Sophocles, translated by Lewis Campbell.
Speaker 3: I heard, though sight confirmed the word he who attended
Speaker 3: at once the couch supreme to a whirling wheel by
Speaker 3: zeus or ruler bound tied head and heel coloring ever
Speaker 3: around the tones his empires, unsubstantial dream of no one
Speaker 3: else through eye or here have I discerned the fate
Speaker 3: more full of fear than yonder sufferers of the cures wound,
Speaker 3: who did no violence, did afforded none a just man
Speaker 3: had he dwelt on the adjust unworthily behold him thrusts
Speaker 3: alone to hear the billows roar that break around the raw.
Speaker 3: Oh he lived, whose life was us consumed with moan,
Speaker 3: Where neighbor there was none, no arm to stay wandering
Speaker 3: alone unevenly with stumbling steps and soar, No friend in me,
Speaker 3: no kin in habitant to the minister, to his importunate
Speaker 3: what no heart to his pangs like to the floor,
Speaker 3: none where the glory flow was rushing hot my healing
Speaker 3: herbs stove or called from teaming earth, from genial plant,
Speaker 3: to allay the anguish and lignent pain. And soon the
Speaker 3: sharpness of his poe like infinite whom the nurse let
Speaker 3: go with heart and movement dear, and there he can
Speaker 3: crawl for a comfort. When sir, his soul and play
Speaker 3: relaxed its cruel strain, not fed with foss on and
Speaker 3: all teeming earth. When we s states ever toiling men,
Speaker 3: but only now and then with weird things like is winging,
Speaker 3: chafts rattle. He say his hunger from his bow, poor soul,
Speaker 3: that have never fought ten years of death, had pleasure
Speaker 3: from the fruitage of the wine by seeking to some
Speaker 3: standing pool not clear nor cool. Foul heave to head
Speaker 3: for lack of heartening wine, But now consorted with the
Speaker 3: hills child he with greatness and a joyful change over
Speaker 3: the water. While the boy and my friendly markath the
Speaker 3: range of water where steal stills, wide channels winding among
Speaker 3: lovely hills, haunts of the malian nymphs, his spies, free
Speaker 3: of his father's hall, and high, Oh, all shine to
Speaker 3: the bronze shield of Hymn, whose home is in the skies.
Speaker 1: Neoptolemus comes out of the cave, followed by Philip tities
Speaker 1: in pain, privy.
Speaker 5: Come on, what does that standard ghast voiceless plus the
Speaker 5: astonished in thine air?
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, what nothing come, my son?
Speaker 5: Fear naught is pain upon me? Has thy trouble come?
Speaker 6: No pain? No pain dispassed. I am easy now heavenly powers.
Speaker 5: Why dost thou grown aloud and cry to heaven?
Speaker 6: Who come and save kind heaven? Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh what ist why silent? Will not speak? I see
Speaker 5: thy misery?
Speaker 6: Oh I am lost my son. I cannot hide it
Speaker 6: from you. Oh it shoots, it pierces.
Speaker 1: Oh unhappy, Oh.
Speaker 6: My woe, I have lost my son.
Speaker 7: I am devoured, Oh me.
Speaker 6: Oh oh oh oh pain.
Speaker 8: Pain, Oh pain, Oh pain child, If so it'd be
Speaker 8: to thine hands my hard sheer off my foot, heed
Speaker 8: not my life?
Speaker 6: Quick come?
Speaker 5: What has so suddenly arisen? That ust Thou makest a
Speaker 5: do and grownest o'er thyself?
Speaker 6: Thou knowest what?
Speaker 5: No I?
Speaker 6: Oh thou knowest my son?
Speaker 5: I know not, ow not know?
Speaker 7: Oh me pain, pain, my plague is a sore burden,
Speaker 7: heavy and sore, so tis unutterable.
Speaker 6: Have pity on me?
Speaker 5: What shall I do?
Speaker 6: Do not in fear forsake me? This wondering evil comes
Speaker 6: in force again, hungry as ere it.
Speaker 5: Fed, Oh, helpless one thrice hapless and thy manifold distress.
Speaker 5: What wilt thou shall I raise thee on mine arm?
Speaker 6: Nay, but receiving from my hand the bow as late
Speaker 6: thou didst desire me, Keep it safe, and guard it
Speaker 6: till the fury of my pain pass over me and cease.
Speaker 6: For when tis spent, slumber will seize me. Else it
Speaker 6: ne'er would end. I must sleep undisturb'd. But if meanwhile
Speaker 6: they come by heaven, I charge THEE in no eyes,
Speaker 6: willingly nor perforce let them have this. Else thou wilt
Speaker 6: be the slayer of us, both of me, thy suppliant
Speaker 6: and of thyself.
Speaker 5: Fear not my care. No hand shall hold these arms,
Speaker 5: but thine and mine given Heaven bless the.
Speaker 6: Deed I give them there, my son, But look to
Speaker 6: Heaven and pray no envy spite thee. No such bain
Speaker 6: in having them as fell on me and him who
Speaker 6: bore them formerly.
Speaker 5: Oh, granted God's and grant U's fair and happy wood,
Speaker 5: where our course is shaped and righteous Heaven shall guide.
Speaker 6: Oh, but I fear, my son, Thy prayer is vain,
Speaker 6: for weelling it again from depths within this gory ooze
Speaker 6: is dripping. It will come, I know it will, Oh,
Speaker 6: foot torn helpless thing, What wilt thou do to me?
Speaker 7: Oh? Oh, it comes, it is at hand.
Speaker 6: Tis here woes me undone, I have shown you all
Speaker 6: stay near me, go not far oh ah oh island king.
Speaker 6: I would this agony might leave thy bosom through and
Speaker 6: through woe, woe, woe ah ye two commanders of the
Speaker 6: host agamemnon menelaus Oh that ye another ten years durrance
Speaker 6: in my room might nurse this malady. Oh, death, death, Death.
Speaker 6: I call THEE daily. Wilt thou never come? Will it
Speaker 6: not be my son, thou noble boy, If thou art noble,
Speaker 6: take and burn me there aloft in yon ow worship'd
Speaker 6: Lemnian fire.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 6: When the bou thou keep'st was my reward. I did
Speaker 6: like service for the child of heaven. How now, my son,
Speaker 6: what sayest art silent? Where where art thou boy?
Speaker 5: My heart is full and groaning o'er thy woes.
Speaker 6: Nay, yet have comfort? This affliction oft goes no less
Speaker 6: swiftly than it came. I pray THEE stand fast and
Speaker 6: leave me not alone.
Speaker 5: Fear not, we will not stir.
Speaker 6: Wilt thou remain be sure of it. I'll have to
Speaker 6: grade THEE with an oath.
Speaker 5: My son rest satisfied. I will not go without.
Speaker 6: THEE thy hand to pledge me.
Speaker 5: That there I will stay.
Speaker 6: Now now aloft where meanst thou yonder aloft?
Speaker 5: Whither thou ravest? Why starest thou the sky?
Speaker 6: Now let me go? Where? Let me go? I say,
Speaker 6: I will not, you will kill me? Let me go?
Speaker 5: Well, thou know'st best?
Speaker 6: I hold thee not, oh Earth, I die, receive me
Speaker 6: to thy breast. This pain subdues me utterly. I cannot stand.
Speaker 5: Thinks he will be fast in slumber. Soon that head
Speaker 5: sinks backwards, and a clammy sweat bathes all his limbs,
Speaker 5: while from his foot it burst a vain, dark bleeding.
Speaker 5: Let us leave him, friends, in quietness, till he had fallen.
Speaker 3: Asleep, Lord, the happiest life. Sleep Thou that knows that
Speaker 3: grief still wafted. Relief, calm save now by mom is
Speaker 3: spread all this pain worn head. Question of the beam
Speaker 3: that gives calm to his brow? Look, O, Lord, to
Speaker 3: my path, I know to say, how is my fault
Speaker 3: to proceed.
Speaker 9: For day?
Speaker 3: Look opportunities fitting the task? To give the race to
Speaker 3: the swift.
Speaker 5: He hears not, But I see that to obtain his
Speaker 5: bow without him were a bootless gain. He must sail
Speaker 5: with us, so that God hath said, Heaven hath decreed
Speaker 5: this garland for his head, and to have filled with
Speaker 5: falsehood were a meat of shameful soul. You're for a
Speaker 5: shameless deed.
Speaker 3: God determined. But the answer friend waft soft words, sick
Speaker 3: man's sleep. We know how, and I they're quickly ruffling
Speaker 3: mind quis in lightest wind, sleepless, in slummer, new danger
Speaker 3: to spy thing, Lord, my path secretly.
Speaker 7: Lose the far What wilt thou do I need?
Speaker 3: How with the wise will thou care? If the nameless
Speaker 3: is merciful, part huge are the dangers that drift. The
Speaker 3: wind is fair, my son, The wind is fair. The
Speaker 3: man is dark and helpless, stretched in night.
Speaker 6: Oh, kind, warm sleep and a.
Speaker 3: Calm human care powers hand and toot and sight mind
Speaker 3: as one lying.
Speaker 7: In the house of death.
Speaker 3: Think well, here ourst breath, this, oh, my son, is
Speaker 3: all my fault, and mind best on the toils that mine.
Speaker 5: Hush one word more were madness. He revives his eye
Speaker 5: of motion.
Speaker 6: He uplifts his head fair daylight following sleep, And ye,
Speaker 6: dear friends, faithful beyond all hope in tending me. I
Speaker 6: never could have dreamed that thou, dear youth couldst thus
Speaker 6: have borne my sufferings and stood near so full of
Speaker 6: pity to relieve my pain. Not so the worthy generals
Speaker 6: of the host of this princely patience was not theirs
Speaker 6: to show. Only thy noble nature, nobly sprung made light
Speaker 6: of all the trouble, though oppressed with fettered odors and
Speaker 6: unceasing cries. And now, since this my plague would seem
Speaker 6: to yield some pause and brief get fullness of pain
Speaker 6: with thine own hand, my son, upraise me here and
Speaker 6: set me on my feet, that when my strength, after exhaustion,
Speaker 6: shall return again, we may move surewood and launch forth
Speaker 6: with speed.
Speaker 5: I feel unhoped for gladness when I see thy painless
Speaker 5: gaze and hear thy living breath, For thine appearance and
Speaker 5: surroundings both were deathlike. But arise or if thou wilt,
Speaker 5: these men shall raise thee, for they will not shrink
Speaker 5: from toil, which thou and I at once enjoin.
Speaker 6: Right right, my son, but lift me thine own self,
Speaker 6: as I am sure thou meanest, let these be, lest
Speaker 6: they be burdened with the noisome smell, before the time
Speaker 6: enough for them to bear the trouble on board.
Speaker 5: I will stand up, endure.
Speaker 6: Fear not old habit will enable me.
Speaker 5: Oh me, WHI shall I do?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 5: Tis my turn to exclaim?
Speaker 6: What canst thou mean? What change here? My son?
Speaker 5: I know not how to shift? The troublous word tis hopeless?
Speaker 6: What is hopeless? Speak not so, dear child.
Speaker 5: But so my wretched lot? Hath fallen?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 6: Can it be the offense of my disease? Hath moved thee?
Speaker 6: Not to take me now on board?
Speaker 5: All his offense to one who had forced himself from
Speaker 5: the true bent to an unbecoming deed.
Speaker 6: Nought misbecoming to thyself? Or sire, dost thou or speak
Speaker 6: befriending a good man?
Speaker 5: Hu, my baseness will appear that wrings my soul.
Speaker 6: Not in thy deeds, but for thy words.
Speaker 5: I fear me, Oh, heaven must double vileness then be
Speaker 5: mine both shameful silence and most shameful speech.
Speaker 6: Or my discernment is at fault. Or thou meanst to
Speaker 6: betray me and make voyage without me?
Speaker 5: Nay, not without thee. There is my distress. Lest I
Speaker 5: convey THEE to thy bitter grief.
Speaker 6: But how how dear youth, I do not understand here.
Speaker 5: I unveil it. Thou art to sail to Troy, to
Speaker 5: join the chieftains and the Achaean host.
Speaker 6: What do I hear?
Speaker 5: Oh, grieve not to you learn?
Speaker 6: Learn? What what wilt thou make of me? What meanst thou.
Speaker 5: First to release THEE from this plague, and then with
Speaker 5: THEE to go and take the realm of Troy?
Speaker 6: And is this thine intent?
Speaker 5: Tis so ordained? Unchangeably? Me be not dismayed?
Speaker 6: Tis so me miserable? I am betrayed undone? What guile
Speaker 6: is here? My bau? Give back my bow?
Speaker 5: I may not interest and duty to force me to
Speaker 5: obey commandment.
Speaker 6: Oh thou fire, thou, terror of the world, dark instrument
Speaker 6: of a hateful guile. What hast thou done? How thou
Speaker 6: hast cheated me? Art not ashamed to look on him
Speaker 6: that sued to THEE for shelter, O heart of stone,
Speaker 6: Thou hast stolen my life away with yonder beau. Ah
Speaker 6: Yet I beg of THEE. Give it me back, my son.
Speaker 6: I entreat THEE give by all thy father worship'd rob
Speaker 6: me not of life?
Speaker 9: Ah me.
Speaker 6: Now he will speak no more, but turns away abjure
Speaker 6: it to retain it. O ye, my comrades in this wilderness,
Speaker 6: rude creatures of the rocks, or promontories, creeks, precipices of
Speaker 6: the hills, To you and your familiar presence, I complain
Speaker 6: of this foul trespass of Achilles's son. Sworn to convey
Speaker 6: me home to Troy, he bears me and under pledge
Speaker 6: of his right hand to the tain, and holds from
Speaker 6: me perforce, my wondrous beau, the sacred gift of Zeus
Speaker 6: born heraclease, thinking to wave it midst thee a cay
Speaker 6: and host valiantly for his in conquering me. He vaunts
Speaker 6: as of some valorous feet, and knows not he is
Speaker 6: spoiling a mere coarse, an empty dream, the shadow of
Speaker 6: a vapor in my strength, he ne'er had vanquish'd me,
Speaker 6: even as I am. He could not, But by guile,
Speaker 6: Now all forlorn, I am abus'd deceiv'd. What must I do?
Speaker 6: Nay give it me? Nay yet be thy true self,
Speaker 6: Thou art silent, I am lost, O misery, rude face
Speaker 6: of rock back, I return'd to thee and thy twined gateway,
Speaker 6: robb'd of arms and food to wither in thy cave,
Speaker 6: companionless no more with these mine arrows to destroy, or
Speaker 6: flying bird or mountain roving beast, but all unhappy, I
Speaker 6: myself must be the feast of those on whom I
Speaker 6: fed the chase of that I hunted, and shall dearly
Speaker 6: pay in bloody quittance for their death through one who
Speaker 6: seem'd all ignorant of sinful guile. Perish not till I
Speaker 6: am certain if thy heart will change once more, If
Speaker 6: not my curse on thee.
Speaker 3: My lord, WI wait thy word shall now or I desire.
Speaker 5: My heart is pressed with a strange pity for him,
Speaker 5: not now beginning, but long since begun.
Speaker 6: Ay, pity me, my son, by all above, Make not
Speaker 6: thy name a scorn by wronging me.
Speaker 5: Oh, I am troubled sore? What must I do? Would
Speaker 5: I had never left mine island home?
Speaker 6: Thou art not base, but seem'st to have learnt some
Speaker 6: baseness from base men? Now is tis meat? Be better? Guided?
Speaker 6: Leave me mine.
Speaker 1: Arms and go Neptolemus to chorus, what shall we do?
Speaker 1: Enter Odysseus, what art thou doing?
Speaker 6: Knave?
Speaker 2: Give me that bow and haste thee back again?
Speaker 6: Alas what do I hear Odysseus's voice.
Speaker 2: Be sure of that Odysseus whom thou seest, oh.
Speaker 6: I am bought and sold undone, twas he that kidnapped
Speaker 6: me and robbed me of my bow?
Speaker 2: Yea, I deny it not, Be sure twas.
Speaker 6: I give back my son the bow, release it.
Speaker 2: That though he desire it, he shall never do. Thou too,
Speaker 2: shalt march along o'er. These shall force THEE.
Speaker 6: They force me, O thou, boldest of bad men, they
Speaker 6: force me.
Speaker 2: If thou comest not willingly o.
Speaker 6: Lemni on earth, and thou mighty flame paphestous workmanship, shall
Speaker 6: this be borne, that he by force must drag me
Speaker 6: from your care?
Speaker 2: Tis Zeus, I tell THEE monarch of this isle, who
Speaker 2: thus hath willed I am his minister, rich.
Speaker 6: What vile words thy wit hath power to say? The
Speaker 6: gods are liars? When invoked by THEE.
Speaker 2: Nay tis there truth compels THEE to this voyage.
Speaker 6: I will not have it.
Speaker 2: So I will thou shalt.
Speaker 6: Woe for my wretchedness. My father then beget no freeman
Speaker 6: but a slave in me, nay but.
Speaker 2: The peer of noblest men, with whom thou art to
Speaker 2: take and ravage Troy with might.
Speaker 6: Never though I must suffer direst woe, while his steep
Speaker 6: lemnion ground is mine to tread.
Speaker 2: What now is thine intent?
Speaker 6: Down from the crag this head shall plunge and stain
Speaker 6: the crag.
Speaker 1: Beneath Odysseus to the attendants.
Speaker 2: I seize and bind him, baffle him in this poor
Speaker 2: hands for lack of your beloveds dring court by.
Speaker 6: This craven o corrupted soul. How thou hast undermine me,
Speaker 6: having taken to screen thy quest, This youth to me unknown,
Speaker 6: far worthier of my friendship than of thine, who knew
Speaker 6: no better than to obey command. Even now tis manifest
Speaker 6: he burns within for pain for his own error and
Speaker 6: my wrong. But though unwilling and mapp'd for ill, thy crafty,
Speaker 6: mean and cranny spying soul two well hath lessened him
Speaker 6: in sinful law. Now thou hast bound me, o, thou wretch,
Speaker 6: and thinkest to take me from his coast where thou
Speaker 6: didst cast me out, Lord and desolate a corpse amongst men. Oh,
Speaker 6: I curse thee now as oft times in the past,
Speaker 6: but since Heaven yields me naught but bitterness. Thou livest
Speaker 6: and art blithe, But tis my pain to live on
Speaker 6: in my misery, laugh'd to scorn by thee an Atraeus's sons,
Speaker 6: those generals twain whom thou art serving in this chase,
Speaker 6: But thou, with strong compulsion and deceit, was driven troyward,
Speaker 6: whilst I, poor victim of free will, took my seven
Speaker 6: ships and sail'd there. Yet was thrown far from all honor,
Speaker 6: as thou sayest by them. But as they turn'd the
Speaker 6: tale by thee. And now why fetch me hence and
Speaker 6: take me to what end? I am nothing dead to
Speaker 6: you this many a year? How o thou heaven abhorred?
Speaker 6: Am I not now lame? And of evil smell? How
Speaker 6: shall ye vaunt before the God's drink, offering o'er the
Speaker 6: fat of victims? If I sail among your crew? For this,
Speaker 6: as ye profess'd, was the chief cause why ye disown'd
Speaker 6: me perish. So ye shall for the wrong done me,
Speaker 6: if the heavens be just, and that they are, I
Speaker 6: know else, had ye ne'er sailed on this errand for
Speaker 6: an outcast wretch, had they not pricked your heart with
Speaker 6: thoughts of me. Oh, if ye pity me chastising powers,
Speaker 6: and thou, the genius of my land, revenge, revenge this
Speaker 6: crime and all their heads at once. My life is pitiable.
Speaker 6: But if I saw their ruin, I would think me
Speaker 6: well and strong.
Speaker 2: Oh fill, I might speak long in answer. Did the
Speaker 2: time give scope? But now one thing is mine to say.
Speaker 2: I am known to vary with the varying need. And
Speaker 2: when tis tried, who can be just hand good? My
Speaker 2: peer will not be found for piety. But though on
Speaker 2: all occasions covetous of victory, this once I yield to
Speaker 2: THEE and willingly unhand him. There let go leave him
Speaker 2: to stay? What further use of thee? When we have
Speaker 2: tamed these arms? Have we not, to sir skill'd in
Speaker 2: this mystery? Yea, I may boast myself thine equal both
Speaker 2: in strength and aim to wield them. Fare thee well?
Speaker 2: Then thou art free to roam thy barren isle. We
Speaker 2: need thee not let us be going, And perchance thy
Speaker 2: gift may bring thy destined glory to my brow?
Speaker 6: What shall I do? Alas shalt thou be seen grace
Speaker 6: with mine arms amongst thy can men? No more I
Speaker 6: am going O a killes child. Wilt thou too vanish?
Speaker 6: Must I lose thy voice?
Speaker 2: Come on and look not noble though thou be lest
Speaker 2: thou undo our fortune.
Speaker 6: Mariners, Must you too leave me thus disconsolate? Will ye
Speaker 6: nor pity me?
Speaker 3: All captain heier, Will ye serve me that we too
Speaker 3: spe My chief will call me weakling soft of heart?
Speaker 5: But go not yet, since our friend bids you stay
Speaker 5: till we have prayed, and all be ready on board. Meanwhile,
Speaker 5: perchance he may conceive some thought that favors our design.
Speaker 5: We two will start, and ye be swift a speed
Speaker 5: forth at our call.
Speaker 6: Acceet o cavern of the hollow rock, frosty and stifling
Speaker 6: in the season's change. How I seem fated never more
Speaker 6: to range from ny sad covert that hath felt the
Speaker 6: shock of pain on pain steep with my wretchedness. Now
Speaker 6: thou wilt be my comforter in death, grief, haunted harbor,
Speaker 6: choked with my distress? Tell me what hope is mine
Speaker 6: of daily food? Who will be careful for my good?
Speaker 6: I fail ye, cowering creatures of the sky. Oh as
Speaker 6: ye FLI snatch me borne upward on the blast, sharp breath.
Speaker 3: O child, no power, half digreed my own will and
Speaker 3: half bound and kind heaven, believe the wisdom burm and
Speaker 3: your sil half chosen.
Speaker 6: His heel to end your, oh hapless life, so bruised
Speaker 6: with pain, no more with living mortal. May I dwell,
Speaker 6: but ever pining in this desert cell with lonely grief
Speaker 6: or famished, must remain and perish? For what food is
Speaker 6: mine to share? When this strong arm no longer wields
Speaker 6: my bow, whose fleet shafts flew to smite the birds
Speaker 6: of air? I was all thrown by words, words dark
Speaker 6: and blind, low, creeping from a traitorous mind. Oh might
Speaker 6: I see him who's unrighteous just thought this ruin wrought
Speaker 6: plague for no lesser period with like woe.
Speaker 3: Not our craft.
Speaker 6: Hold sound thy purse, with a dial.
Speaker 3: That light true care, Thou scorner love.
Speaker 6: In my disfair, now seated by the shore of heaving ocean. Hoar,
Speaker 6: he mocks me, waving high the sole support of my
Speaker 6: precarious being, the bow which none e're held, But I, oh,
Speaker 6: treasure of my heart, torn from his hand, that loved
Speaker 6: thy touch. If thou canst understand how sad must be
Speaker 6: thy look in, seeing thy master destined now no more
Speaker 6: like heracles of your to wield thee with an archer's might,
Speaker 6: but in the grasp of an old, scheming, white, Oh
Speaker 6: bitter change. Thou art, plied and swaying ever by his side,
Speaker 6: shall view his life of dark malignity, teeming with shameful
Speaker 6: guiles like those he wrought on me.
Speaker 3: No manly and song, but not with endeous light. With
Speaker 3: a tongue he friends the fleet word through the ministering
Speaker 3: craft of all was meat.
Speaker 6: Come legions of the wild of aspect, fierce or mild fowl,
Speaker 6: from the fields of air, and beasts that roam with bright,
Speaker 6: untroubled gaze. No longer bounding from my lair, fly mine.
Speaker 6: Approach now freely without fear. You may surround my covet
Speaker 6: and come near, treading the savage, rock strewn ways. The
Speaker 6: might I had is no more mine, stolen with those
Speaker 6: arms divine this fort hath no man to defend. Come
Speaker 6: satisfy your vengeful jaws and rend these quivering, tainted limbs,
Speaker 6: already hovering death bedims my fainting sense, who thus can
Speaker 6: live on air taste no gift of earth. The breathing mortals, share, Ah.
Speaker 3: Friend, if if love thou rest no fate which thou
Speaker 3: earst ain in hardship, but sorest in.
Speaker 6: Pain, kindest of all that e'er before have trod this
Speaker 6: shore again, thou mind'st me of mine ancient woe. Why
Speaker 6: wilt thou ruin me? What wouldst thou do? Aw meanst
Speaker 6: thou if de troy of me abhord thou he'er hast
Speaker 6: hope to lead me with thy law?
Speaker 3: So I judge best begone at once? Begone, sweet is
Speaker 3: that word, and swiftly shall be done. Let us be gone,
Speaker 3: each to his place on board.
Speaker 1: The chorus make as if they were going nay by
Speaker 1: dear zeus, to whom all suppliants moan.
Speaker 6: Leave me not yet keep measure in thy word, Stay
Speaker 6: by heaven. Stay. What wilt thou say, Oh misery, Oh
Speaker 6: cruel power that rules this are? I am destroy'd ah me,
Speaker 6: Oh poor tor nim? What shall I do with thee
Speaker 6: through all my days? To be ah? Strangers come return? Return?
Speaker 3: What new command are we to learn? Crossing thy former mind?
Speaker 6: Ah? Yet be kind reprove not him whose tongue with
Speaker 6: grief distraught obeys not in dark storms the helm of thought.
Speaker 3: Calm, poor friend, the way we call.
Speaker 6: Never learn it once for all, not though he whom
Speaker 6: heaven obeys. Blast me with fierce lightnings. Blaze perish Troy
Speaker 6: and all your hosts that have chosen, to their cost
Speaker 6: to despise me and cast me forth, since my wound
Speaker 6: obscur'd my worth. Ah, But, strangers, if your sense hath
Speaker 6: awe mastered this offense, yield but one thing to my prayer?
Speaker 6: What wouldst thou have some weapon, bear axe, or sword
Speaker 6: or sharpened dart, bring it to content my heart? What
Speaker 6: is thy new intent to sever point by point this
Speaker 6: body joint from joint on bloody death? My mind is bent?
Speaker 6: Wherefore to see my father's face? Where upon earth he
Speaker 6: hath no place where sun doth shine, but in the
Speaker 6: halls of night, Oh, native country, land of my delight.
Speaker 6: Would I were blessed one moment with thy sight? Why
Speaker 6: did I leave thy sacred dew and loose my vessels
Speaker 6: from thy shore to join a hateful Denayan crew and
Speaker 6: lend them succor? Oh I am no more?
Speaker 3: Long since thou hadst geen meknwing yond the ship? Had
Speaker 3: I not spied Odysseus and the son of great Achilles,
Speaker 3: hastening to our side.
Speaker 2: Wilt thou not tell me why thou art hurrying this
Speaker 2: backward journey with reverted speed.
Speaker 5: To undo what I have wrongly done? To day?
Speaker 2: Thy words appall me? What is wrongly done?
Speaker 5: Whenel obeying THEE and all the host?
Speaker 2: Thou didst what deed that misbecame thy life?
Speaker 5: I conquered with base stratagemen.
Speaker 2: Fraud whom what new plan is rising in thy mind?
Speaker 5: Not new? But to the child of Poeus?
Speaker 2: Here what wilt thou do I quake with strange alarm?
Speaker 5: From whom I to these weapons? Back again?
Speaker 2: Oh Heaven, thou wilt not give them? Meanest thou this yea,
Speaker 2: for I have.
Speaker 5: Them through base sinful means.
Speaker 2: I pray THEE. Speakest thou thus to anger me?
Speaker 5: If the truth anger THEE? The truth is.
Speaker 2: Said Achilles' son, what word is fallen from thee?
Speaker 5: Must the same syllables be thrice thrown forth?
Speaker 2: Once was too much? Would they had ne'er been said enough?
Speaker 5: Thou hast heard my purpose clearly told.
Speaker 2: I know what power shall thwart THEE in the deed?
Speaker 5: Whose will shall hinder me?
Speaker 2: The Achaean host, and I among them.
Speaker 5: Ah, thou art sharp witted, sure, but little wit or
Speaker 5: wisdom showst thou.
Speaker 2: Here Neither thy words nor thy design is wise.
Speaker 5: But if t is righteous, that is better?
Speaker 2: Far how righteous to release what thou hastained by my device?
Speaker 5: I sinned a shameful sin, and I will do mine
Speaker 5: utmost to retrieve it.
Speaker 2: How fearest thou not the Achaeans in this act?
Speaker 5: In doing right, I fear not them nor THEE.
Speaker 2: I call thy power in question.
Speaker 5: Thou, I'll fight not with Troy's legions, but with THEE.
Speaker 2: Come on, let fortune arbitrate.
Speaker 5: Thou seest my hand feeling the hilt.
Speaker 2: And me thou soon shalt see doing the like and
Speaker 2: dallying not. And yet I will not touch THEE, but
Speaker 2: will go and tell the army that shall wreak this
Speaker 2: on thy head.
Speaker 5: Accept not thou ShoWest discretion, which, if thou preserve thou
Speaker 5: mayst maintain a path exempt from pain. Ho Solapoeus felt,
Speaker 5: did is come and leave thy habitation in the rock?
Speaker 6: What noise again is troubling my poor cave? Why do
Speaker 6: you summon me? What crave? Ye sirs? Ah tis some knavery.
Speaker 6: Are ye come to add some monster evil to my
Speaker 6: mountainous woe?
Speaker 5: Fear not, but hearken to what now I speak?
Speaker 6: I needs must fear THEE, whose fair words erewild brought
Speaker 6: me to bitter fortune.
Speaker 5: May not men repent and change.
Speaker 6: Such wast thou and thy talk when thou didst rob
Speaker 6: me my bow, so bright without so black within?
Speaker 5: Ah, But not now assure thee? Only let me hear
Speaker 5: thy will is constant to remain here and endued to
Speaker 5: make voyage with us.
Speaker 6: Stop speak no more idle and vain? Will all thine
Speaker 6: utterance be?
Speaker 5: Thou art so resolved.
Speaker 6: More firmly than I say?
Speaker 5: Why would I might have brought THEE to my mind?
Speaker 5: But since my words are out of tune, I have done.
Speaker 6: Thou art best. No word of thine can touch my
Speaker 6: soul or win me to thy love, who, by deceit
Speaker 6: hast reft my life away. And then thou comest to
Speaker 6: school me of noblest father, basest son, perish the etre
Speaker 6: day first of all, and then layette child.
Speaker 5: And thou curse me no more? But take this hallowed
Speaker 5: weapon from my hand?
Speaker 6: What words are these? Am I again deceived?
Speaker 5: No by the holiest name of Zeus on high.
Speaker 6: Oh, voice of gladness. If thy speech be true, the.
Speaker 5: Deed shall prove it. Only reach thy hand and me again, soul,
Speaker 5: master of bye Beau.
Speaker 1: Odysseus appears, But.
Speaker 2: I make protest in the sight of Heaven for atreus
Speaker 2: sons and all the Achaian host.
Speaker 6: Dear son, whose voice disturbs us? Do I hear Odysseus.
Speaker 2: Aye, and thou behold'st him nigh, and he shall force
Speaker 2: THEE to the Trojan plain howe'er Achilles offspring make or mar.
Speaker 6: This shaft shall bear THEE sorrow for that boast, but
Speaker 6: not fly by heaven. Dear child, let go mine arm.
Speaker 1: I will not exit Odysseus.
Speaker 6: Ah, Why hast thou rubbed my bow of bringing down
Speaker 6: mine enemy?
Speaker 5: This were ignoble both for THEE and me.
Speaker 6: One thing is manifest. The first of the hosts lying
Speaker 6: forerunners of the Achaean band are brave with words, but
Speaker 6: cowards with the steel.
Speaker 5: Well, now the boy is thine. Thou hast no cause
Speaker 5: for blame or anger any more against me.
Speaker 6: None thou hast proved thy birth right, dearest boy, not
Speaker 6: from the loins of Sissyphus thou earnest but from Achilles,
Speaker 6: who in life was held noblest of men alive, and
Speaker 6: now are the dead.
Speaker 5: It gladdens me that thou shouldst speak in praise both
Speaker 5: of my sire and me. But hear me tell the
Speaker 5: boon for which I soothe thee. Mortal men must bear
Speaker 5: such evils as I Heaven ordains. But those afflicted by
Speaker 5: self chosen ills like thine to day receive no from
Speaker 5: just men, or kind indulgence or compassionate thought. And Thou
Speaker 5: art restive, grown and wilt not hearken. But though one
Speaker 5: counsel THEE with kindest intent will take him for a dark,
Speaker 5: malignant foe. Yet calling zeus to witness for my soul
Speaker 5: once more, I will speak know this and mark it well.
Speaker 5: Thou bearest this sickness by a heavenly doom through coming
Speaker 5: near to Chrysa's sentinel, the lurking snake that guards the
Speaker 5: sky roofed fold, and from this plague thou ne'er shall
Speaker 5: find reprieve. While the same sun God rears him from
Speaker 5: the east and droops to west again, till thou become
Speaker 5: of thine own willing mind to Troya's plain, where our physicians,
Speaker 5: son of Phoebus, child, shall soothe thee from thy sore,
Speaker 5: And thou with me, and with this bow shalt take
Speaker 5: Troy's citadel. How do I know this? I will tell
Speaker 5: thee straight. We have a trojan captive helenus, both Prince
Speaker 5: and prophet, who hath clearly told this must be so
Speaker 5: yea and our harvest time this year, Great Troy must fall.
Speaker 5: Else if his words be falsified, who will may slay
Speaker 5: the seer? Now, since thou know'st of this yield thy
Speaker 5: consent for glorious is the gain being singled forth from
Speaker 5: all the Greeks as noblest, first to come to healing hands,
Speaker 5: and then to win renown, unrivaled, vanquishing all tearful Troy.
Speaker 6: Oh, how I hate my life? Why must it keep
Speaker 6: this breathing form from sinking to the shades? How can
Speaker 6: I prove a rebel to his mind who thus exhorts
Speaker 6: me with affectionate heart? And yet O misery must I
Speaker 6: give way?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 6: How could I endure the light of heaven? With whom
Speaker 6: could I exchange a word? I me eyes that have
Speaker 6: seen each act of my sad life? How could ye
Speaker 6: bear it to behold the sons of a trace, my destroyers,
Speaker 6: comrades now and friends Laerti's wicked son my friend. Unless
Speaker 6: I feel the grief of former wrong, than shudder with
Speaker 6: expectance of fresh harm. They yet may work on me.
Speaker 6: For when the mind hath once been mother of an
Speaker 6: evil brood, it nurses naught but evils ye at THEE.
Speaker 6: I marvel, Thou shouldst ne'er return to Troy, nor suffer
Speaker 6: me to go when thou rememberest what insults they have
Speaker 6: done thee, ravishing thy father's rights from thee. And wilt
Speaker 6: thou then sail to befriend them, pressing me in aid, Nay,
Speaker 6: do not soun. But even as thou hast sworn convey
Speaker 6: me home, and thou enskyrest dwelling, leave to their evil doom,
Speaker 6: those evil men, So thou shalt win a twofold gratitude
Speaker 6: from me and from my father, and not seem helping
Speaker 6: vile men to be as vile as they.
Speaker 5: Tis fairly spoken. Yet I would that thou, relying on
Speaker 5: my word and on Heaven's aid, wouldst voyag forth from
Speaker 5: Lamnoss with thy friend.
Speaker 6: Meanst thou to Troy and to the hateful sons of
Speaker 6: betrayers me with this distressful limb.
Speaker 5: Nay, but to those that will leave the pain of
Speaker 5: thy torn foot and heal thee of thy.
Speaker 6: Plague, thy words are horrible? What meanst thou boy?
Speaker 5: The act I deem the noblest for us?
Speaker 6: Both wilt thou speak?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 6: Where is I fear of heaven?
Speaker 5: Why should I fear? When I see certain.
Speaker 6: Gain gain for the sons of betrayers or for me?
Speaker 5: Methinks a friend should give THEE friendly counsel.
Speaker 6: Friendly to hand me over to my foes.
Speaker 5: Ah, be not hardened in thy misery.
Speaker 6: I know thou wilt ruin me by what thou speakest
Speaker 6: not I.
Speaker 5: The case is dark to the icy.
Speaker 6: I know the atre das cast me on this rock.
Speaker 5: But how if they should save THEE afterward?
Speaker 6: They ne'er shall make me see Troy with my will?
Speaker 5: Hard is my fortune? Then if by no slight of
Speaker 5: reasoning I can draw THEE to my mind for me
Speaker 5: for easiest den speech, that thou mightst live on as
Speaker 5: thou livest in hopeless.
Speaker 6: Pain, then leave me to my fate. But thou hast
Speaker 6: touched my right hand with thine own and given consent
Speaker 6: to bear me to my home. Do this, dear son,
Speaker 6: and do not linger to take thought of Troy enough
Speaker 6: that name hath echoed in my groans.
Speaker 5: If thou wilt let us be going.
Speaker 6: Nobly, hast thou said.
Speaker 5: The word clean, Thy steps on mine.
Speaker 6: As firmly as my foot will strength afford.
Speaker 5: Ah, But how shall I escape a key in anger?
Speaker 5: Do not care, Ah, they should spoil my country.
Speaker 6: I to shield THEE will be there, how to shield me?
Speaker 6: How to aid me with the shafts of Heracles? I
Speaker 6: will scare them?
Speaker 5: Give thy blessing to this isle, and come in peace.
Speaker 1: Heracles appears from above.
Speaker 9: First, son of Poiet, Wait till thou hast heard the
Speaker 9: voice of Heracles and weighed his word him. Thou beholdest
Speaker 9: from the heavenly seat, come down for thee, leaving the
Speaker 9: blest retreat to tell thee all high zeus intends, and
Speaker 9: stay thy purpose in the journey of to day. Then
Speaker 9: hear me first, how after my long toils by strange adventure,
Speaker 9: I have found and one immortal glory which thine eyes perceive.
Speaker 9: And the like lot I tell THEE shall be thine
Speaker 9: after these pains to rise to glorious fame. Sailing with
Speaker 9: this thy comrade to troy Town. Burst, thou shalt heal
Speaker 9: THEE from thy grievous sore, and then being singled forth
Speaker 9: from all the host as noblest, thou shalt conquer with
Speaker 9: that beau paris, prime author of these years of harm,
Speaker 9: and capture Troy, and bear back to thy hall the
Speaker 9: choicest gerdon for thy Valor's mead, to Oeta's veil, and
Speaker 9: thine own father's home. But every prize thou takest, be
Speaker 9: sure thou bear unto my pyre in memory of my bow.
Speaker 9: This word, Achilles offspring, is for THEE no less, For
Speaker 9: as thou couldst not without him, so without THEE he
Speaker 9: cannot conquer Troy. Then, like twin lions hunting the same hill,
Speaker 9: guard thou him and he THEE. And I will send
Speaker 9: as cleepy as Troy would, to relieve thy pain. For
Speaker 9: ilian Now a second time must fall before the herculean bow.
Speaker 9: But take good heed, midst all your spoil, to hold
Speaker 9: the gods in awe, for our great father counteth Piety.
Speaker 1: Far above all.
Speaker 9: This follows man in death, and fails them not when
Speaker 9: they resign their breath.
Speaker 6: Thou, whom I have long'd to see. Thy dear voice
Speaker 6: is low to me.
Speaker 9: I obey with gladdened heart, lose no time at once,
Speaker 9: depart bright occasion and fair wind. Urge your vessel from behind.
Speaker 6: Come let me bless the region. Ere I go poor house,
Speaker 6: sad comrade of my watch. Farewell, ye nymphs of meadow,
Speaker 6: where soft waters flow thou ocean headland peeling thy deep knell,
Speaker 6: where oft within my cavern as I lay, my hair
Speaker 6: was moist with dashing south winds. Spray and oft times
Speaker 6: came from hermes foreeland high sad replication of my storm
Speaker 6: vex'd cry ye fountains and thou Lycian waters. Sweet. I
Speaker 6: never thought to leave you, yet my feet are turning
Speaker 6: from your paths. We part for aye, farewell, unwaft me
Speaker 6: kindly on my way Olemnian earth enclosed by circling seas,
Speaker 6: the sail where mighty fet my course, decrees and friendly
Speaker 6: voices point me and the will of that heroic power
Speaker 6: who doth this act fulfill?
Speaker 3: Oh, now all in one strong man. They're loosing from
Speaker 3: the land. Pray we to the nymphs of sea. Time
Speaker 3: protectors till to the throat and strand.
Speaker 9: End of Part two
Speaker 1: D of Philiptities by Sophocles, translated by Lewis Campbell,