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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles
“This I learn Too late, by sad experience, for no good”
Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, The Women of Trachis, third episode, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)
After the wool she used to apply the charm dissolves in the sun, Deianira realises that Nessus deceived her.
Citation: "This I learn Too late, by sad experience, for no good" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, The Women of Trachis, third episode, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q4)
