Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Oidipous

380

ô ploute kai turanni kai technê^* technês^*
huperpherousa^** tôi poluzêlôi^* biôi^*,
hosos par' humin ho phthonos phulassetai^**,
ei têsde g' archês hounech', hên emoi polis
dôrêton, ouk aitêton^*, eisecheirisen,

385

tautês^* Kreôn ho pistos⁺, houx archês philos,
lathrai m' hupelthôn ekbalein himeiretai,
hupheis^* magon toionde mêchanorraphon,
dolion⁺ agurtên^*+, hostis⁺ en tois⁺ kerdesin^*
monon dedorke⁺, tên technên⁺ d' ephu⁺ tuphlos⁺.

390

epei, pher' eipe, pou^* su mantis ei saphês^*;
pôs ouk, hoth' hê rhapsôidos^* enthad' ên kuôn^*,
êudas ti toisd' astoisin eklutêrion;
kaitoi to g' ainigm'^*+ ouchi⁺ toupiontos⁺ ên
andros dieipein^*++, alla manteias edei:

395

hên out'^* ap'^* oiônôn^* su prouphanês echôn^*
out' ek theôn^* tou^* gnôton^*: all' egô molôn^*,
ho mêden⁺ eidôs^* Oidipous, epausa nin,
gnômêi kurêsas oud' ap', oiônôn mathôn⁺:
hon dê su peirais ekbalein, dokôn thronois

400

parastatêsein tois Kreonteiois pelas^*.
klaiôn^* dokeis moi kai su chô suntheis^* tade
agêlatêsein: ei de mê 'dokeis^* gerôn
einai, pathôn^* egnôs an hoia per phroneis^*.
Choros
hêmin men eikazousi kai ta toud' epê

405

orgêi^* lelechthai⁺⁺ kai ta s', Oidipous, dokei,
dei d' ou toioutôn, all' hopôs ta tou theou
mantei' arista lusomen^*, tode^* skopein.

Further comments from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
line 387: magos
line 387: agurtês
line 390: epei
line 393: ho epiôn
line 395: prouphanês
line 395: ek
line 395: prouphanês
line 395: apo
line 395: ek
line 403: oia
line 405: kai ta s'

Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
2244 [CAUSAL CLAUSES]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
*
* [510-548: Commos]
* [720-1043: Second episode]
* [720-1043: Second episode]
* [1-116: Prologue]
*

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
118 [Bemerkungen über die Kasusendungen.]
53 [D. Elision.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
426 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Lokativs.]
397 [d. Imperativ.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
569 [a) Grundangebende Adverbialsätze.]
535 [Oute . . oute, mête . . mête). — Oude, mêde.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [365-375]
* [1155-1352]
* [631-780]
* [376-581]
* [988-1114]
* [631-780]
* [376-581]
* [582-625]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [974-1184]
* [974-1184]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [251-471]
* [251-471]
* [251-471]
* [251-471]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [135-218]
* [865-1080]
* [219-675]
* [219-675]
* [219-675]
* [135-218]
* [219-675]
* [865-1080]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [141-496]
* [141-496]
* [531-632]

Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
7, 114, 1 [BOOK VII]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
11, 271 [Book 11 (l)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
718 [Section IX: Causal Sentences.]
687 [Participle in Indirect Discourse.]

This text is based on the following book(s):
Sophocles. The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1887.
OCLC: 39793726