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τὸ σὸν … στόμα, thy mouth has come hither suborned: thou hast come as a mere mouthpiece of the Thebans, secretly pledged to aid their designs on me. Cp. O. T. 426 (Teiresias says) “καὶ Κρέοντα καὶ τοὐμὸν στόμα ι προπηλάκιζε”, my message from Apollo.

ὑπόβλητον: cp.

“οὐδεὶς ἐρεῖ ποθ᾽ ὡς ὑπόβλητον λόγον,
Αἴας, ἔλεξας, ἀλλὰ τῆς σαυτοῦ φρενός

”

, a word not true to thy nature. So “ὑπόπεμπτος” of an insidious emissary, Xen. Anab. 3.3.4.


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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    • Sophocles, Ajax, 481
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 426
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.3.4
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