Note 699 — Chapter XV · LEGEND OF TROY.
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For the character of Odysseus, Iliad, iii. 202-220; x. 247. Odyss. xiii. 295.
The Philoktêtês of Sophoklês carries out very justly the character of the Homeric Odysseus (see v. 1035)—more exactly than the Ajax of the same poet depicts it.