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    Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | English (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)
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    Before the palace of Oedipus in Thebes. Suppliants of all ages are seated on the steps of the altars. Oedipus enters, in the robes of a king: for a moment he gazes silently on the groups at the altars, then speaks.
    Oedipus

    My children, latest-born wards of old Cadmus, why do you sit before me like this with wreathed branches of suppliants, while the city reeks with incense, [5] rings with prayers for health and cries of woe? I thought it unbefitting, my children, to hear these things from the mouths of others, and have come here myself, I, Oedipus renowned by all. Tell me, then, venerable old man--since it is proper that you [10] speak for these--in what mood you sit here, one of fear or of desire? Be sure that I will gladly give you all my help. I would be hard-hearted indeed if I did not pity such suppliants as these.


    There are a total of 12 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    line 1 (general note)
    line 1: nea
    line 1: trophê
    line 10: pro tônde
    line 10: tini tropôi
    line 10: kathestate

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    * [1. pro with the Genitive only]

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

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    346 [a) Metonymischer Gebrauch der Substantive.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    482 [Fortsetzung über das ergänzende Partizip.]

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
    * [162-331]
    * [631-780]: ô tekna

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae:
    * [94-140]

    Cross references from A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin):
    paean [PAEAN]

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    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


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