The oracle newly brought by Ismene is distinguished from the oracle given to Oedipus himself at Delphi in former years (see on 87). He calls the former her oracle, because she brings it. Both oracles alike concern him. We must not, then, change τἀξ to τἀπ᾽ (“"concerning me"”). τὰ ἐξ ἐμοῦ παλαίφατα=the earlier predictions which I, on my side, can produce: those which the resources of my knowledge furnish forth. ἐξ is appropriate, since they have been so long treasured in his inmost soul. Cp. on 293.
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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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