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Odysseus
Then stay here by the cave and wait for him.
I will depart - he must not see me here -
125and take our spy back to the ship again.
Later, if you should seem procrastinating
or spending too much time, then I will send
this very man to you again, disguised
as a ship's captain: his secrecy will help you.
130Listen, my son, to him, and when he speaks
artfully, benefit from what he says.
Now I must go: this task is in your hands.
May guileful Hermes guide us on our way,
and Nike, and Athena - my protectress!
Odysseus and the spy leave.
The Chorus enter.
chorus
The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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