Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

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Choros
ho xeinos^*, ônax, chrêstos: hai de sumphorai

1015

autou panôleis, axiai^** d' amunathein^*.
Thêseus
halis logôn, hôs hoi men exeirgasmenoi
speudousin, hêmeis d' hoi pathontes^* hestamen^*.
Kreôn
ti dêt' amaurôi^* phôti^* prostasseis poein;
Thêseus
hodou katarchein tês ekei^*, pompon de me

1020

chôrein, hin', ei men en topoisi toisd' echeis
tas paidas hêmin^* autos ekdeixêis emoi^*:
ei d' enkrateis^* pheugousin^*, ouden dei ponein.
alloi^* gar hoi speudontes, hous^* ou mê pote
chôras^* phugontes^* têsd' epeuxôntai^** theois^*.

1025

all' exuphêgou: gnôthi d' hôs echôn echei^*
kai s' heile thêrônth'^* hê tuchê^*: ta gar dolôi^*
tôi mê dikaiôi^* ktêmat' ouchi sôizetai.
kouk^* allon^* hexeis^* eis tad': hôs exoida^* se
ou psilon^* oud' askeuon^* es tosênd'^* hubrin^*

1030

hêkonta tolmês^* tês parestôsês tanun,
all' esth' hotôi^* su pistos^* ôn edras tade.
ha dei m' athrêsai, mêde tênde tên polin
henos poêsai phôtos asthenesteran.
noeis ti toutôn^*, ê matên ta nun^* te soi

1035

dokei lelechthai chôte taut' emêchanô;
Kreôn
ouden su mempton^* enthad' ôn^* ereis emoi:
oikoi de chêmeis eisomesth' ha chrê poein.
Thêseus
chôrôn apeilei nun^*: su d' hêmin, Oidipous,
hekêlos autou mimne, pistôtheis^* hoti,

1040

ên mê thanô 'gô prosthen, ouchi pausomai⁺
prin⁺ an se tôn sôn kurion⁺ stêsô⁺ teknôn⁺.
Oidipous
onaio^*, Thêseu, tou te gennaiou charin^*
kai tês pros hêmas endikou promêthias⁺.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
line 1014: hai de s
line 1016: exêrpasmenoi
line 1025: all

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
969: pistos
515

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [117-253: Parodos]
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* [720-1043: Second episode]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
424 [Dativ bei Substantiven.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
484 [Bemerkungen über den Wechsel des ergänzenden Partizips und des ergänzenden Infinitivs.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [332-375]
* [162-331]
* [806-943]
* [162-331]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [201-595]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [1-120]
* [251-471]
* [121-250]

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

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [663-820]
* [531-632]

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
2, 33 [Book 2 (b)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
295 [Section IV: ou mê with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative.]

This text is based on the following book(s):
Sophocles. The Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1889.
OCLC: 39793726