αὐδῶ σιωπᾶν. Creon forbids the utterance of the curse which he forebodes; and the injunction reminds Oedipus that he is near the Awful Goddesses who impose abstinence from all ill-omened words. “"Nay"” (“γάρ”), he cries, “"may they suffer me to utter one imprecation more (“ἔτι"”).” γάρ implies, “"I will not yet be mute"”; cp. also its use in wishes, “εἰ γάρ, εἴθε γάρ”, etc. ἔτι recalls the former imprecation on his sons (421 ff.). ἄφωνον … ἀρᾶς: cp. on 677 “ἀνήνεμον...χειμώνων.” τῆς is a certain correction of the MS. γῆς (“Τ” for “Γ”).
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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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