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Mycenae (Greece) (search for this): card 317
Chorus I believe that I, too, pity you, son of Poeas, as much as your former visitors. Neoptolemus And I myself attest your accusations,for I know their truth through my own experience with the wickedness of the Atreids and the force of Odysseus. Philoctetes What, do you also have a grievance against the accursed sons of Atreus, a cause for anger at some mistreatment? Neoptolemus If only I might one day be allowed to fulfill my heart's rage by the deeds of my hand,so that Mycenae might learn, and Sparta, that Scyros also is a mother of brave men! Philoctetes Well said, son! Now what is the reason that you have come complaining against them with this fierce wrath? Neoptolemus I will tell you—and yet it is hard to tell—the outrage that I suffered from them upon my arrival there. For when fate decreed that Achilles should die— Philoctetes Ah, me! Tell me no more, until I first know this—is the son of Peleus dead? Neoptolemus Dead—not by a mortal hand, but by a god's.He was
Ilium (Turkey) (search for this): card 441
hiloctetes He would be—no evil thing has ever been known to perish. No, the gods take excellent care of their kind. They find a strange joy in turning back from Hades all things criminaland crooked, while they are always dispatching the just and the good from life. How am I to regard these doings? How can I praise them, when in the very act of praising the ways of the gods, I find that the gods are evil? Neoptolemus I, at least, son of Oetean Poeas, will be on my guard hereafter against Iliumand the Atreids, and look on them only from afar. And where the worse man is stronger than the good, where nobility goes to ruin and the vile man dominates—among such men I will never make my friends. No, rocky Scyros shall suffice for mefrom now on to make me delight in my home. Now to my ship! And you, son of Poeas, farewell—as best you can, farewell! May the gods free you of your disease, just as you wish! But we must be going, so that wemay set sail whenever the god permits our voya<
Argive (Greece) (search for this): card 403
o see this. Neoptolemus Ah, friend, he was no longer alive—I would never have been plundered like that while he lived. Philoctetes What do you say? Is he, too, dead and gone? Neoptolemus Think of him as of one who sees the sun's light no more. Philoctetes Oh, no! But the son of Tydeus, and Sisyphus' offspring that was bought by Laertes—they will not die, since they do not deserve to live! Neoptolemus No, indeed, be sure of it. On the contrary, they prosper now—yes, and greatly—in the Argive army. Philoctetes And what of my brave old friend, Nestor of Pylos—is he not alive? He often checked the crimes of those two, if not others, by his sage counsels. Neoptolemus He has his own troubles now, since Antilochus,the son that was at his side, left him for Hades. Philoctetes Ah, me! These two, again, whom you have named, are men of whose death I had least wished to hear. Gods! What are we to look for, when these men have died, but Odysseus here again lives, whenin their place
Lemnos (Greece) (search for this): card 1445
ommands! Neoptolemus I, too, consent. Heracles Then do not long delay,for the occasion and the fair wind there at your stern urge you forward. Philoctetes Come, then, let me hail this land as I depart. Farewell, chamber that shared my watches. Farewell,nymphs of stream and meadow, and you, strong pounding of the sea-lashed cape, where often in the cavern's inmost recess my head was wetted by the south wind's blasts, and where many times the Hermaean mount sent an echoto my sad groans in the gale of my sorrow! But now, clear springs and Lycian fount, I am leaving you, leaving you at last, though such a hope had never buoyed me! Farewell, sea-wrapped Lemnos,and send me off with sailing fair to my heart's content, send me to the destination appointed me by mighty Fate and the will of my friends, and by the all-taming god who has brought these things to pass. Chorus Now let us all leave together,once we have prayed to the nymphs of the sea to come be the guides of our safe return.
Paris (France) (search for this): card 1408
ing. Hearken to my words. First I would tell you of my own fortunes—how, by toiling through and enduring so many toils to the end, I have won the glory of deathlessness, as you witness.And for you, be sure, this fate is ordained, that through these toils of yours you will make your life far-famed. You shall go with this man to the Trojan city, where, first, you shall be healed of your cruel sickness,and then, chosen out as foremost among the warriors in prowess, with my bow you shall sever Paris, the author of these evils, from life. You shall sack Troy and shall receive from the army the spoils of supreme valor to carry hometo the heights of your native Oeta for the delight of your father Poeas. And whatever spoils you receive from that army, from them carry to my pyre a thank-offering for my bow. And these counsels hold for you also, son of Achilles,for you have not the might to subdue the Trojan realm without him, nor he without you. Rather, like twin lions with the same quar
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): card 1408
go with this man to the Trojan city, where, first, you shall be healed of your cruel sickness,and then, chosen out as foremost among the warriors in prowess, with my bow you shall sever Paris, the author of these evils, from life. You shall sack Troy and shall receive from the army the spoils of supreme valor to carry hometo the heights of your native Oeta for the delight of your father Poeas. And whatever spoils you receive from that army, from them carry to my pyre a thank-offering for my b of Achilles,for you have not the might to subdue the Trojan realm without him, nor he without you. Rather, like twin lions with the same quarry, each of you must guard the other's life. For the healing of your sickness, I will send Asclepius to Troy, since it is doomed to fall a second timebefore my arrows. But of this be mindful, when you plunder the land—that you show reverence towards the gods. Do this because Father Zeus regards all else as of less account, and because Piety does not di
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): card 1380
us Not I. But you, I say, will not understand. Philoctetes Do I not know already that the Atreids cast me away? Neoptolemus They cast you out, yes, but look if they will not in turn restore you. Philoctetes Never—if I must first consent to see Troy. Neoptolemus What can I do, then if my pleading fails to persuade you of anything that I recommend?The easiest course for me is to stop talking, and for you to live, just as you do now, without deliverance. Philoctetes Let me bear the sufferings I must first consent to see Troy. Neoptolemus What can I do, then if my pleading fails to persuade you of anything that I recommend?The easiest course for me is to stop talking, and for you to live, just as you do now, without deliverance. Philoctetes Let me bear the sufferings that are fated me. But what you promised me with your right hand in mine—to bring me home,—that promise fulfil for me, son,and do not delay, or remind me further of Troy. I have had my fill of grief and lamenta
Laertes (search for this): card 1348
ctetes Hateful life, why, why do you keep me in the light of day, instead of letting me go to Hades' domain?Ah, me, what shall I do? How can I ignore this man's words, when he has advised me with good will? But shall I yield, then? How, after doing that, shall I, ill-fated, come into men's sight? Whom will I be able to talk to? You orbs that have watched my every suffering,how could you endure to see me consorting with the sons of Atreus, who caused my ruin, or with the accursed son of Laertes? It is not my resentment for what has already been done that stings me, rather it is the many troubles which I seem to foresee I must suffer at the hands ofthese men in the future. For when the mind of men has once mothered wrongdoing, it trains those men to be wrongdoers in all else thereafter. And in you, too, I wonder at this. You should never yourself revisit Troy, and should prevent me from going there, seeing that those men have done you outrageby stripping you of your father's ar
Troy (Turkey) (search for this): card 1348
resee I must suffer at the hands ofthese men in the future. For when the mind of men has once mothered wrongdoing, it trains those men to be wrongdoers in all else thereafter. And in you, too, I wonder at this. You should never yourself revisit Troy, and should prevent me from going there, seeing that those men have done you outrageby stripping you of your father's arms [when, in the suit for the weapons, they judged unhappy Ajax inferior to Odysseus]. After that, will you go to fight at thefather, and you will not appear through your service to bad men to be like them in your nature. Neoptolemus Your recommendation is reasonable, but nevertheless, I wish that you would put your trust in the gods and in my words,and sail from this land with me, your friend. Philoctetes What! To the plains of Troy and to the abhorred son of Atreus, with this miserable foot? Neoptolemus No, rather to those who will free you and your pus-filled limb from pain, and will save you from your sickness.
Chryse (search for this): card 1314
y cling to self-inflicted miseries, as you do,no one can justly excuse or pity them. You have become savage: you welcome no counsellor, and if someone admonishes you, even if he speaks in all good will, you detest him and consider him an enemy who wishes you ill. All the same I will speak to you, calling Zeus who guards oaths to witness.And you remember these words and write them in your heart: you suffer this plague's affliction in accordance with god-sent fate, because you came near to Chryse's guardian, the serpent who secretly watches over her home and guards her roofless sanctuary. Know also that you will never gain relief from this grave sickness,as long as the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west, until of your own free will you come to the plains of Troy, find there the sons of Asclepius, our comrades, be relieved of this infection, and, with this bow'said and mine, be hailed as the sacker of Troy's towers. How I know these things are so ordained, I will te
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