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Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 33 (search)
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 118 (search)
The Chorus of elders of Colonus enters the orchestra.
Chorus
Look! Who was he, then? Where is he staying? Where has he rushed from this place,man most insatiate of all who live? Scan the ground, look well, press the search everywhere. A wanderer that old man must have been,a wanderer, not a dweller in the land; otherwise he never would have advanced into this untrodden grove of the maidens with whom none may strive.Their name we tremble to speak; we pass them by with eyes turned away, moving our lips, without sound or word, in still devotion. But now it is said that one has come who reveres them not at all;and him I cannot yet discern, though I look round all the holy place, nor do I know where to find his lodging.
Oedipus steps forward with Antigone.
Oedipus
Behold the man you seek! In sound is my sight, as the saying goes.
Chorus
Oh! Oh! Fearful he is to see, and fearful to hear!
Oedipus
Do not regard me, I beg you, as a lawless man.
Chorus
Zeus defend us! Who may this old man b
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 668 (search)
Chorus
Stranger, in this land of fine horses you have come to earth's fairest home, the shining Colonus.Here the nightingale, a constant guest, trills her clear note under the trees of green glades, dwelling amid the wine-dark ivyand the god's inviolate foliage, rich in berries and fruit, unvisited by sun, unvexed by the wind of any storm. Here the reveller Dionysus ever walks the ground,companion of the nymphs that nursed him.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 800 (search)
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 848 (search)