πόλιν, Thebes, rather than his adopted city, Argos. Oedipus had declared, indeed, that his son should not destroy Thebes (1372): but Antigone is ready to suppose a different event as possible (“πάτραν κατασκάψαντι”, 1421); and, in any case, Thebes would suffer the scourge of war.
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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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