οὐ γάρ με τἄλγος “κ.τ.λ.” ‘How can I return to the Atreidae? For it is not merely a question of forgetting the past; I dread the future.’ He does not mean that he has ceased to resent the former wrongs, but only that his present resolve is influenced less by resentment than by fear.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part IV: The Philoctetes. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1932.
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