Philoctetes
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Neoptolemus
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Be sure of it.
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Neoptolemus
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I give it—to stay.
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Neoptolemus
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Where do you mean?
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Philoctetes
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Up there!
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Neoptolemus
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Where will you go, if I do so?
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Philoctetes
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Let me go, I say!
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Philoctetes
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You will kill me, if you touch me further.
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Neoptolemus
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Do not wail in grief, before you understand!
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Neoptolemus
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A harsh necessity governs these events, so do not be angered at hearing of them.
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Odysseus
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That he shall never do, even if he wished to. And, what is more, you must come along with it, or my men will bring you by force.
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Odysseus
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Unless you come of your own free will.
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Odysseus
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Now, I say. You must obey.
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Philoctetes
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Throw myself now from the rock and shatter my head on the rocks below!
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Philoctetes
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In Hades; he dwells in the sunlight no more. Ah, my city, city of my fathers! I crave to see you, unhappy man that I truly am
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Neoptolemus
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My error was to my dishonor, and now I must try to retrieve it.
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Odysseus
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Do you see my right hand
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Neoptolemus
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You will see me do the same, and not slowly.
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Philoctetes
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Stop, not another word! Whatever you may say will be said in vain.
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Philoctetes
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More firmly, believe me, than words can say.
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Philoctetes
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Yes, all your pleas will be in vain. You will never gain my mind’s good will, since first you fraudulently seized my means of life and robbed me of it, and then you have come here to admonish me, you most hateful descendant of so noble a father!
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Neoptolemus
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Speak no more curses, and instead receive these weapons from my hand.
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Odysseus
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Be sure of it, and you see him at your side, who will carry you to the plains of Troy by force, whether or not the son of Achilles is willing.
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Philoctetes
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Alas! Why did you take from me the chance to kill my hated enemy with my bow?
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Philoctetes
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O noble words!
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Philoctetes
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As far as my strength allows.
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Philoctetes
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Disregard it.
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Philoctetes
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I will be there—
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Philoctetes
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—And with the shafts of Heracles—
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Philoctetes
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—I will keep them away.
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Neoptolemus
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Then say your farewell to this island, and leave with me.