Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

Teiresias

Table of Contents

Go to

[380] O wealth, and empire, and skill surpassing skill in life's keen rivalries, how great is the envy in your keeping, if for the sake of this office which the city has entrusted to me, a gift unsought, [385] Creon the trustworthy, Creon, my old friend, has crept upon me by stealth, yearning to overthrow me, and has suborned such a scheming juggler as this, a tricky quack, who has eyes only for profit, but is blind in his art!

[390] Come, tell me, where have you proved yourself a seer? Why, when the watchful dog who wove dark song was here, did you say nothing to free the people? Yet the riddle, at least, was not for the first comer to read: there was need of a seer's help, [395] and you were discovered not to have this art, either from birds, or known from some god. But rather I, Oedipus the ignorant, stopped her, having attained the answer through my wit alone, untaught by birds. It is I whom you are trying to oust, assuming that [400] you will have great influence in Creon's court. But I think that you and the one who plotted these things will rue your zeal to purge the land: if you did not seem to be an old man, you would have learned to your cost how haughty you are.

To our way of thinking, these words, both his and yours, Oedipus, [405] have been said in anger. We have no need of this, but rather we must seek how we shall best discharge the mandates of the god.

Further comments from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
line 385: tautês
line 390: epei
line 390: pou;
line 390: ei saphês
line 395: hên oit' ap' oiônôn echôn out' ek theôn tou gnôton
line 395: prouphanês
line 395: ap'
line 395: ek
line 395: prouphanês
line 395: apo
line 395: ek
line 395: theôn tou
line 395: gnôton
line 395: molôn
line 400: pelas
line 405: orgêi
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:
* [720-1043: Second episode]
* [1-116: Prologue]
*: orgêi lelechthai
*
* [549-667: Conclusion of first episode]: orgêi lelechthai

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.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [365-375]
* [1-99]: Kreôn ho pistos
* [631-780]
* [582-625]

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

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

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

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

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. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1887.
OCLC: 39793726