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Listen! With a louder noise this one crashes down unspeakably, [1465] hurled by Zeus! The hair of my head stands up for fear, my soul is dismayed; for again the lightning flashes in the sky. What end will it release? [1470] I fear it, for never does it fly forth in vain, or without serious results. O great Sky! O Zeus!

Oedipus
Children, the appointed end of life has reached this man; he can turn from it no more.

Antigone
How do you know? By what means do you understand this?

Oedipus
[1475] I know it well. But let some one go, I pray you, as quickly as he can, and bring back the lord of this land.

Sophocles. The Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1889.

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