Polynices
Such were his words; but me they must not move.
Unhappy me! But who will madly dare
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Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles. Robert Potter (Translator). London. 1820.
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1429. mvp-comment-761-1 οὐδ᾽ ἀγγελούμεν (1) But we will not tell. δé adversative, arguing against the suggestion of Antigone. Or, (2) οὐδὲ ἀγγελοῦμεν, We will not even report bad news, i. e. and so they will not act upon them. For the thought in ἐπεὶ .. λέγειν, cp. the exhortation of Nicias to his men at Syracuse, Thuc. 7. 61.