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Οἰδίπους

ὦ τέκνα, Κάδμου τοῦ πάλαι νέα τροφή,
τίνας ποθ᾽ ἕδρας τάσδε μοι θοάζετε
ἱκτηρίοις κλάδοισιν ἐξεστεμμένοι;
πόλις δ᾽ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει,
5ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων:
ἁγὼ δικαιῶν μὴ παρ᾽ ἀγγέλων, τέκνα,
ἄλλων ἀκούειν αὐτὸς ὧδ᾽ ἐλήλυθα,
ὁ πᾶσι κλεινὸς Οἰδίπους καλούμενος.
ἀλλ᾽ ὦ γεραιέ, φράζ᾽, ἐπεὶ πρέπων ἔφυς
10πρὸ τῶνδε φωνεῖν, τίνι τρόπῳ καθέστατε,
δείσαντες ἢ στέρξαντες; ὡς θέλοντος ἂν
ἐμοῦ προσαρκεῖν πᾶν: δυσάλγητος γὰρ ἂν
εἴην τοιάνδε μὴ οὐ κατοικτίρων ἕδραν.

Sophocles. Sophocles. Vol 1: Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. With an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 20. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1912.

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Commentary references to this page (3):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1094
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 761
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes, 58
Cross-references to this page (1):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, NEGATIVE SENTENCES
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (9):
- LSJ, ἀρκτεύω
- LSJ, ἐκκυ^λ-ίνδω
- LSJ, εὐέπεια
- LSJ, φοράδιον
- LSJ, παυσ-τήριος
- LSJ, στέγω
- LSJ, στέργω
- LSJ, συμφορ-ά
- LSJ, συναλλ-άσσω

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Francis Storr, Ed.