Philoctetes

[ fil-uhk-tee-teez ]

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
2. (italics) a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Sophocles.

Philoctetes

/ fɪˈlɒktɪˌtiːz; ˌfɪlɒkˈtiːtiːz /

noun

1. Greek myth a hero of the Trojan War, in which he killed Paris with the bow and poisoned arrows given to him by Hercules

Example Sentences

Philoctetes filled the Greek stage with his lamentations; Hercules himself, when in fury, does not keep under his grief.

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One of their latest poets has indeed ventured upon a Philoctetes, but would he have dared to exhibit the true one?

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The Philoctetes, indeed, is the only play which lends any support to Professor Butcher's statement.

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Now Philoctetes had been companion to Hercules in many of his labors, and also had been with him when he died upon Mount ta.

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Now when these two were landed upon the island, Ulysses led the way to the place where in time past he had left Philoctetes.

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