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Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 897 (search)
have spurned her lawful authorities and made this violent assault. You are taking captives at will and subjugating them by force, as if you believed that my city was void of men, or manned by slaves, and that I counted for nothing. Yet it was not Thebes that trained you to be evil. Thebes is not accustomed to rearing unjust men;—nor would she praise you, if she learned that you are despoiling me, and despoiling the gods, when by force you drive off their unfortunate suppliants. If my foot were Thebes is not accustomed to rearing unjust men;—nor would she praise you, if she learned that you are despoiling me, and despoiling the gods, when by force you drive off their unfortunate suppliants. If my foot were upon your land, never would I drag off or lead away someonewithout permission from the ruler of the land, whoever he might be—no, even if my claim were the most just of all. I would know how a stranger ought to live among citizens. But you are disgracing a city that does not deserve it: your own,and your years, despite their fullness, bring you an old age barren of sense. Now, I have said before, and I say it once again: let the maidens be brought here speedily, unless you wish to be an unwillin<
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 800 (search)
I flee? Where find help from gods or men? Chorus What are you doing, stranger? Creon I will not touch this man, but her who is mine. Oedipus Lords of the land! Chorus Stranger, you are acting unjustly. Creon Justly. Chorus How? Creon I take my own. He lays his hand on Antigone. Oedipus Oh, city ! Chorus What are you doing, stranger? Release her!Your strength and ours will soon come to the test. Creon Stand back! Chorus Not while this is your purpose. Creon There will be war with Thebes for you, if you harm me. Oedipus Did I not say so? Chorus Unhand the girl at once! Creon Do not make commands where you are not the master. Chorus Let go, I tell you! CreonTo his guards, who seize Antigone. And I tell you: be off! Chorus Help, men of Colonus, bring help! The city, our city, is attacked by force! Come to our aid! Antigone I am being dragged away in misery. Strangers, strangers! Oedipus My child, where are you? Antigone I am led off by force. Oedipus Give me your han
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 761 (search)
ight in this empty? Yet such is the nature of your own offers to me: noble in appearance, but in substance base. And I will declare it to these men too, to show you up as base. You have come to get me,not to bring me home, but to plant me near your borders, so that your city might escape uninjured by evils from this land. That fate is not for you, but this one: the brooding of my vengeful spirit on your land forever; and for my sons, this heirloom:just so much soil in my realm in which to die. Am I not wiser than you in the fortunes of Thebes? Yes, far wiser, by as much as the sources of my knowledge are truer: Phoebus I mean, and his father, Zeus himself. But you have come here with fraud on your lips, yes,and with a tongue keener than the edge of a sword; yet by their use you may well reap more sorrow than salvation. Still, since I know that I cannot persuade you of this, go! Allow us to live on here; for even in this plight our life would not be bad, if we should be content with it.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 720 (search)
ourn his woes.Unhappy Oedipus, hear us, and come home! Justly are you summoned by all the Cadmeans, and most of all by me, since I—unless I am the worst of all men born—feel most sorrow for your woes, old man,when I see you, unhappy as you are, a stranger and a wanderer evermore, roaming in beggary, with one handmaid for your support. Ah, me, I had not thought that she could fall to such a depth of misery as that to which she has fallen—this poor girl!—as she tends forever your dark life amid poverty; in ripe youth, but unwed: a prize for the first passerby to seize. Is it not a cruel reproach—alas!—that I have cast at you, and me, and all our race?But indeed an open shame cannot be hidden. Oedipus, in the name of your ancestral gods, listen to me! Hide it, and consent to return to the city and the house of your ancestors, after bidding a kind farewell to this city. Athens is worthy; yet your own city has the first claim on your reverence,since it was Thebes that nurtured y
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 607 (search)
Oedipus Dearest son of Aegeus, to the gods alone old age and death never come, but everything else sinks into chaos from time which overpowers all.Earth's strength decays, and so too the strength of the body; trust dies; distrust is born; and the same spirit is never steadfast among friends, or between city and city. For some now, for others tomorrow, sweet feelings turn to bitter, and then once more to being dear.And if now the sun shines brightly between Thebes and you, yet time in his course gives birth to days and nights untold, in which from a small cause they willscatter with the spear today's pledges of concord. Then one day my slumbering and buried corpse, cold in death, will drink their warm blood, if Zeus is still Zeus, and Phoebus, the son of Zeus, speaks clear. But, since I would not break silence concerning words that must not spoken, allow me to cease where I began.Only keep your own pledge good, and never will you say that in vain you welcomed Oedipus to dwell in this
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 579 (search)
ime, then, will the benefit become clear? Oedipus When I am dead, and you have given me burial. Theseus You crave life's last service; but for all between you have no memory, or no care. Oedipus Indeed, for by that service I gather in all the rest. Theseus Well then, this favor you crave from me is brief indeed. Oedipus Yet take care; the struggle here is no light one. No, indeed. Theseus Do you mean in respect to your sons, or to me? Oedipus They will compel you to convey me there to Thebes. Theseus But if you are willing, then exile is not becoming. Oedipus No, when I was willing, they refused. Theseus Foolish man, anger amidst woes is not suitable. Oedipus When you have heard my story, admonish; till then, forbear. Theseus Speak. I must not pronounce without knowledge. Oedipus I have suffered, Theseus, terrible woes upon woes. Theseus Will you speak of the ancient trouble of your race? Oedipus No, indeed; all Greeks speak of that. Theseus How, then, do you suffer bey
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 1751 (search)
would follow. Antigone Son of Aegeus, we supplicate you! Theseus To obtain what desire, my children? Antigone We want look with our own eyes upon our father's tomb. Theseus It is not right to go there. Antigone What do you mean, lord, ruler of Athens? Theseus Children, he told me that no one should draw near that place, or approach with prayer the sacred tomb in which he sleeps. He said that, so long as I saw to this, I would always keep the country free from pain.The divinity heard me say these things, as did the all-seeing Oath of Zeus. Antigone If this is his intention, we must be content with it.Send us to ancient Thebes, in case we may somehow stop the bloodshed that threatens our brothers. Theseus I will do both this and whatever other favorable service I can, for youand for the newly-departed under the earth, according to the gratitude I owe. I am bound to spare no pains. Chorus Cease; raise up the lamentation no further. These things are established firm and fixed.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 421 (search)
shelter in the land, and the aid of family. Their brothers have bartered their father for the throne, the scepter of power, and the rule of the realm.No, never will they win Oedipus for an ally, nor will good ever come to them from this reign at Thebes; that I know, when I hear this maiden's oracles and reflect on the old prophecies stored in my own mind, which Phoebus has fulfilled for me at last.Therefore let them send Creon to seek me—or whoever else is mighty in Thebes. For if you, stranger win Oedipus for an ally, nor will good ever come to them from this reign at Thebes; that I know, when I hear this maiden's oracles and reflect on the old prophecies stored in my own mind, which Phoebus has fulfilled for me at last.Therefore let them send Creon to seek me—or whoever else is mighty in Thebes. For if you, strangers, with the help of the dread goddesses who reign among your district, are willing to defend me, you will obtain a great savior for this city,and troubles for my enem
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 385 (search)
ffer misfortune. Oedipus I need no god to help my wits so far. Ismene For this reason, therefore, they wish to get you as their neighbor;but in a place where they will have you at their mercy. Oedipus Will they really cover me in Theban dust? Ismene No, the guilt of related blood forbids you, father. Oedipus Then never will they become my masters. Ismene Someday then this will be a grief for the Cadmeans. Oedipus In what conjunction of events, my child? Ismene Under the power of your anger, when they stand at your tomb. Oedipus And who has told you this, my child? Ismene Sacred envoys, from the Delphian hearth. Oedipus And has Phoebus indeed spoken this concerning me? Ismene So say the men who have come back to Thebes. Oedipus Has either of my sons heard this? Ismene Yes, both have heard it, and know it well. Oedipus And then those most evil of sons, aware of this, preferred the kingship to the wish of recalling me? Ismene It grieves me to hear this, but I must bear it.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 1346 (search)
hen never would he have heard my voice of prophecy. But now he will be graced with it, before he goes, and hear from me such words as never will gladden his life.Worst of men, when you had the scepter and the throne, which now your brother has in Thebes, you drove me, your own father, into exile; and by making me an exile you caused me to wear this clothing at whose sight you weep, now that you have come to the same state of misery as I.The time for tears is past. I must bear this burden as long preserve me; they are my nurses; they are men, not women, in sharing my toil. But you are from another and are no sons of mine.Therefore the divinity looks upon you—not yet as he soon will look, if indeed those armies of yours are moving against Thebes. There is no way in which you can ever overthrow that city. Before that you will fall, polluted by bloodshed, and so too your brother.Such curses as my heart before now sent up against you both, I now invoke to fight for me, in order that you may
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