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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles
“But I rather choose To offend with honour, than to win by wrong”
Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Philoctetes, prologue, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)
Neoptolemus objects to Odysseus's plan to take Philoctetes by deceit.
Citation: "But I rather choose To offend with honour, than to win by wrong" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Philoctetes, prologue, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q5)
