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Neoptolemus
If you wish, then let us go.

Philoctetes
O nobly spoken word!

Neoptolemus
Plant our footsteps firmly now.

Philoctetes
1405 With all the strength I have.

Neoptolemus
How can I escape the anger of the Greeks?

Philoctetes
Fear not.

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

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