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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Philoctetes's use of 'free'

In Sophocles,

"You never had one single free thought in your mind!" (eleutheron). Philoctetes complained to Odysseus.

For Philoctetes, Odyseeus was always thinking of some 'ulterior motive'.

cited by Lewis, "Studies in words".

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