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Quotation from Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes by Sophocles

“For our great Father counteth piety Far above all”

Sophocles (spoken by Heracles)

Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Philoctetes, exodos, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883)

The deified Heracles, sending Philoctetes and Neoptolemus to Troy, warns them to reverence the gods amid the spoils of victory.

Citation: "For our great Father counteth piety Far above all" — Sophocles, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes, Philoctetes, exodos, trans. Lewis Campbell (1883). (id sophocles-ajax-electra-trachiniae-philoctetes-q6)

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