Philoctetes (excerpt)

In your isolation you thought of revenge, perhaps,

of your recognition or at least for the significance

of your arms.

Yet, now, you have been vindicated, I won’t hide it,

I’ve come for these, as you have guessed: these

will finally bring victory to the Hellenes

(on this the oracle is clear) your arms, in my hands.

But above all I’ve come for you. I wouldn’t accept

your arms so that I’d be recognized or as a reward

for the deliverance I’m offering you: to take you along

to my ships with your incurable wounds and your loneliness;

and what deliverance? Such words are fashionable these days.

We’ve learned them — what more can we say?

No one has the time to see nor to speak.

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