Philoctetes

[ fil-uh k-tee-teez ]

/ ˌfɪl əkˈti tiz /

noun

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.

(italics) a tragedy (408? b.c.) by Sophocles.

Example sentences from the Web for philoctetes

He pretends to return to his ship, but Philoctetes implores him to set him once more in Greece.

Authors of Greece |T. W. Lumb
The Philoctetes, indeed, is the only play which lends any support to Professor Butcher's statement.

Ephemera Critica |John Churton Collins
The ancient Crimissa, situated near these places, was also founded by Philoctetes.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume I (of 3) |Strabo
After a while Philoctetes came up the path to the cave very slowly, and with many groans.

Stories from the Greek Tragedians |Alfred Church

We see this in the figures of Oedipus, Prometheus, and Philoctetes.

Romain Rolland |Stefan Zweig

British Dictionary definitions for philoctetes

Philoctetes

/ (ˌfɪlɒkˈtiːtiːz, fɪˈlɒktɪˌtiːz) /

noun

Greek myth a hero of the Trojan War, in which he killed Paris with the bow and poisoned arrows given to him by Hercules

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