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

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Thêseus
oukoun^*+ tis hôs tachista prospolôn molôn
pros tousde^* bômous, pant' anankasei^* leôn
anippon^* hippotên^* te thumatôn^* apo

900

speudein^*+ apo^*** rhutêros^**+, entha^* distomoi^*
malista^* sumballousin emporôn hodoi^*+,
hôs mê parelthôs' hai korai, gelôs d' egô⁺
xenôi⁺ genômai⁺ tôide⁺, cheirôtheis biai^*.
ith'^*, hôs anôga, sun tachei. touton d' egô,

905

ei men di' orgês hêkon^*, hês hod' axios,
atrôton ou methêk' an ex emês cheros.
nun d' housper^* autos tous^* nomous^* eisêlth' echôn⁺,
toutoisi^* kouk alloisin harmosthêsetai^*.
ou gar pot' exei⁺ têsde⁺ tês chôras, prin⁺ an

910

keinas⁺ enargeis^*+ deuro⁺ moi stêsêis⁺ agôn^*+:
epei dedrakas out'⁺ emou kataxiôs
outh'⁺ hôn^* pephukas autos oute sês chthonos:
hostis dikai' askousan eiselthôn polin
kaneu nomou krainousan ouden, eit' apheis^*

915

ta têsde tês gês kuri', hôd' epeispesôn^*
ageis^* th' ha chrêizeis kai paristasai^* biai,
kai moi polin kenandron ê doulên tina^**
edoxas einai kam' ison tôi mêdeni^*.
kaitoi se Thêbai^*+ g' ouk epaideusan^*+ kakon⁺:

920

ou gar philousin andras ekdikous trephein,
oud'⁺ an s' epaineseian, ei puthoiato^*+
sulônta^* tama kai ta tôn theôn, biai
agonta phôtôn athliôn hiktêria^*.
oukoun egôg' an sês epembainôn^*+ chthonos,

925

oud' ei ta pantôn⁺ eichon^*+ endikôtata⁺,
aneu ge tou krainontos^*, hostis ên^*, chthonos^*+
outh' heilkon⁺ out' an êgon^*+, all' êpistamên
xenon^* par' astois hôs diaitasthai chreôn.
su d' axian ouk ousan^* aischuneis polin

930

tên autos hautou^*, kai s' ho plêthuôn chronos^*
geronth' homou tithêsi kai tou nou^* kenon.
eipon men oun kai prosthen, ennepô de nun,
tas paidas hôs tachista deur' agein tina,
ei mê metoikos^*+ têsde tês chôras theleis

935

einai biai te kouch^* hekôn^*+: kai tauta soi
tôi nôi th' homoiôs kapo tês glôssês^* legô.
Choros
horais hin' hêkeis^*, ô xen'; hôs aph' hôn^* men ei
phainei dikaios, drôn d' epheuriskei kaka.

Further comments from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
line 906: methêk
line 911: kataxia dran
line 913 (general note)
line 914: eit
line 915: ta kuria

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
1463
1418
1131

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

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
430 [2) Apo, von, und ex, ek, aus.]
346 [a) Metonymischer Gebrauch der Substantive.]
411 [Doppelter Akkusativ.]
398 [Bemerkungen über die Modaladverbien an und ken.]
399 [Gebrauch der Modusformen in den Nebensätzen.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
507 [Konfirmatives oun [Lesb., böot., dor. u. neuion. ôn]).]
556 [Attraktion in der Stellung des Relativs.]
522 [Kai . . kai. — Te . . kai.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [631-780]
* [162-331]
* [376-581]
* [376-581]
* [781-800]
* [1155-1352]
* [806-943]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax:
* [201-595]
* [974-1184]
* [974-1184]
* [974-1184]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Electra:
* [516-1057]
* [516-1057]
* [121-250]
* [516-1057]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Philoctetes:
* [1218-1471]
* [1-134]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
* [141-496]
* [141-496]
* [663-820]
* [141-496]
* [971-1278]
* [141-496]
* [141-496]

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
16, 475 [Book 16 (P)]

Cross references from Charles Simmons, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII and XIV:
14, 362

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