Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 346

Robert Potter (Translator)

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Oedipus
1313
Woe, woe, woe, woe! O miserable me!
Wretch that I am, ah, whither am I borne?
Whose ears do now my cries of anguish reach?
To what are thy decrees, O fortune, changed

Oedipus Tyrannus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.

Current edition Experimental

English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) (English) (English (Robert Potter, 1788))

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 346 focus
ἅπερ ξυνίημʼ. ἴσθι γὰρ δοκῶν ἐμοὶ
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 463-511 focus
Translations (3)
English (Lewis Campbell, 1906) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Lewis Campbell, 1906)) — 346 focus
COR. SH
No marvel, good my lord. But I will soon
Wake to clear knowledge his oblivious sense.
For sure I am he can recall the time,
When he with his two flocks, and I with one
Beside him, grazed Cithaeron’s pasture wide
1135
Good six months’ space of three successive years,
From spring to rising of Arcturus; then
For the bleak winter season, I drove mine
To their own folds, he his to Laius’ stalls.
Do I talk idly, or is this the truth?
1140
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 354 focus
So kühn, so schamlos schüttest du dies Wort heraus,
355
Und wähnst vielleicht, du werdest meiner Nach' entflieh'n?
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 463-510 focus

Commentary

Commentary (R. C. Jebb) (OCR draft) (Commentary (R. C. Jebb))

mvp-comment-805-1 ἀπότροπον 1

mvp-comment-805-2 ἐπιπλόμενον 2

mvp-comment-806-1 δυσούριστον 3 δυσούριστον ὄν 4 δυσούριστ’ ἰόν 5 δυσοιώνιστον 6 δυσεξούριστον 7

mvp-comment-807-1 κέντρων 8

Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) (Commentary (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) focus

1313-1318. mvp-comment-742-1 O cloud of darkness cov. ering me, horrible, unutterably lowering on my head, unconquerable, and wafted to me by an evil fate.' For δυσούριστον, cp. 423, ἄνορμον εἰσέπλευσας εὐπλοίας τυχών, For ἐμόν, expressing a feeling of personal appropriation, cp. Αj. 395, σκότος, ἐμὸν φάος : О. С. 1549, ὦ φῶς ἀφεγγές, πρόσθε πού ποτ' ἦσθ' ἐμόν.

1318. mvp-comment-743-1 κέντρων.. τῶνδε The points of the clasps, which he still felt as if piercing his eye-balls, or rather the wounds inflicted by them. How the pang of these sharp wounds enters into me together with the remembrance of my calamity!' The word κέντρον is again used of a stabbing pain in Tr. 840, κέντρ᾽ ἐπιζέσαντα.