γῆν τε … καὶ … Ὄλυμπον. Theseus bows down and kisses the earth, then suddenly rises, and with upturned face stretches forth his hands towards the sky. The vision which he had just seen moved him to adore both the “χθόνιοι” and the “ὕπατοι”. This touch is finely conceived so as to leave the mystery unbroken. Cp. Ph. 1408 “στεῖχε προσκύσας χθόνα”: Ant. 758 “τόνδ᾽ Ὄλυμπον” (the heaven above us). ἐν ταὐτῷ λόγῳ, “"in the same address (or prayer),"” i.e. one immediately after the other: not, “"on the same account."”
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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