Sophocles Philoctetes 329

Thomas Francklin (Translator)

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Neoptolemus
Withhold thy imprecations,
And take thy arrows back.

Philoctetes. Sophocles. Thomas Francklin (Translator). London. 1758–1759.

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English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759))

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Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 329 focus
ὦ παῖ Ποίαντος, ἐξερῶ ἐξερῶ ἐξερῶ, μόλις δ᾽ ἐρῶ,
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 391-402 focus
Translations (4)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 329 focus
NEO
In doing right I fear not them nor thee.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 317 focus
Auch ich beklage billig, Sohn des Pöas, dich
Gleich jenen Fremden, welche hier gelandet sind.
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 329 focus
Philoctetes
PHILOCTETES, NEOPTOLEMUS, CHORUS.
What means this clamorous uproar at my cave?
Why call you me? What would you? Ah, I fear
Some further mischief. Come you to augment
My woes, and add to ill some greater ill ?
1265
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 391-400 focus

Commentary

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

1283-1284. mvp-comment-852-1 νουθετεῖς ἐμὲ | ἐλθών] ‘You come and give me advice.' That he should come at all, after what he has done, is an offence. ἔχθιστος] αἴσχιστος, the conjecture of Pierson, has been accepted by recent editors. It certainly makes the antithesis more exact, and ἔχθιστος and αἴσχιστος are confounded in MSS. of Aj. 658, and elsewhere. But for inexact antithesis, see Essay on L. § 41. p. 78, €, and for ἐχθρός simply expressing abhorrence, cp. supr. 928, τέχνημ᾽ ἔχθιστον, and many other places in Sophocles. Translate, 'Most abhorred son of a father whom I most admired.' Cp. supr. 242, ὦ φιλτάτου παῖ πατρός.