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Neoptolemus
Here you behold the rocky entrance-way
160of his twin-mouthed lair.

chorus
But where has this miserable man gone now?

Neoptolemus
I would surmise that he is dragging
his foot nearby in search of food.
They say it is thus he gains a living,
165hunting wild beasts with winged arrows,
leading a hateful, hateful life. And no one
comes near to him
to heal his heavy hardships.

The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 403
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