Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 84

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Know ye of one
220
Begotten of Laius?
220

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Lewis Campbell (Translator). London, New York and Toronto. 1906.

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Editions (2)
Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (Lewis Campbell, 1879)) — 84 focus
ὦ πότνιαι δεινῶπες, εὖτε νῦν ἕδρας
Greek (F. Storr, 1912) (OCR draft) Experimental (Greek (F. Storr, 1912)) — 117-253b focus
Translations (4)
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (German (J. J. C. Donner, 1875; OCR review)) — 75 focus
Um nicht zu irren, höre noch: (denn edel scheinst
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Du mir von Anseh'n, außer daß dies Loos dich traf;)
Bleib' hier, o Fremdling, wo du mir zuerst erschienst,
Bis ich Kolonos' Bürgern, nicht dem Volk der Stadt, 1
Den Fall zu melden gehe; die entscheiden dann,
Ob hier du bleiben, ob du wieder ziehen sollst.
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Oedipus. Antigone.
English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Thomas Francklin, 1758–1759)) — 84 focus
Oedipus
May he come
In happy hour to Athens and to me !
He will ; what good man doth not love his country ?
English (Robert Potter, 1788) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Robert Potter, 1788)) — 84 focus
Chorus
To none is vengeance destined, who repay.
Wrongs first received; and fraud opposed to fraud
Brings on the first deceiver punishment,
Not grace. So then, since thou hast left those seats,
230
Hence with thy utmost speed, and quit this land,
230
Nor further violate my country's peace.
230
Strangers revering virtue, since your minds
Are adverse to my father old and blind,
Hearing report of deeds to which his will
Consented not, yet me, unhappy me,
Ye generous strangers, pity; I implore
Your pity, for my father I implore,
Blushing as to your eyes my eyes I raise,
Yet as deriving from your source my blood,
Pray you to reverence his afflicted age:
How godlike this! On you our hopes depend.
Assent, refuse not to my pray'rs this grace,
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I beg by all your souls hold dear, your wives,
235
Your children, by your duty, by the god.
235
View mortal man, none ever will you find,
If the god force him, that can shun his fate.
English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904) (OCR draft) Experimental (English (Sir Richard Jebb, 1904)) — 118-250 focus

Commentary

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

mvp-comment-167-1 Λαΐου ἴστε τιν’ 1

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219. mvp-comment-129-1 Hermann's correction of this line is adopted without denying that some other (e. g. μέλλεις, Blaydes) may possibly be right.

220. mvp-comment-130-1 By simply rejecting lov from the Laurentian reading (i. e. λ. ἴ. τ. ἀ. -ὦ ὤ.), we might obtain a dactylic tetrameter, as in 224, 226, with a resolution of the 3rd arsis, for which, cp. Eur. Or. 1485, ἥσσονες ῾Ἑλλάδος ἐγενόμεθ᾽ αἰχμᾶς. But the regular alternation of the paroemiac with-0-0-0-gives a more probable rhythm. And ἀπόγονον may be a gloss on Λαΐου. If the several choreutae are supposed to speak in turn the line may have run: ΟΙ. Λαΐου ἴστε τιν'; ΧΟ. α΄. ὦ· ΧΟ. β'. ἰού, ἰού. And so Herm. read in 1839. For the sense, ср. О. Т. 1383, τὸν ἐκ θεῶν | φανέντ᾿ ἄναγνον καὶ γένους τοῦ Λαΐου : where the fatal birth from Laius makes the climax of horror.