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