Wednesday, September 29, 2021
I Was Just Following Orders
Sophocles, Philoctetes 6 (Odysseus speaking; tr. Hugh-Lloyd-Jones):
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...on the orders of those in command...Lloyd-Jones omitted τόδ᾽ ἔρδειν in his translation, as he was perfectly entitled to do, but because I value a literal translation above all:
...ταχθεὶς τόδ᾽ ἔρδειν τῶν ἀνασσόντων ὕπο...
...ordered to do this by those in command...Or, in Jebb's translation:
...having charge from my chiefs so to do...Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875), Philoctète dans l'île de Lemnos (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes):
