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    Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)

    Chorus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) | English (ed. Sir Richard Jebb)
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    Teiresias

    Though you are king, the right of reply must be considered the same for both: over that I have control. [410] For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias'. I will not stand enrolled as Creon's client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom. [415] Do you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother's and your father's curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see. [420] What place will be harbor to your cries, what part of all Cithaeron will not ring with them soon, when you have learned the meaning of the nuptials in which, within that house, you found a fatal haven, after a voyage so fair? And you have not guessed at a throng of other ills [425] which will bring you level with your true self and with your own children. Therefore heap your scorn upon Creon and upon my message: for no man will ever be crushed more miserably than you.


    There are a total of 8 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    line 408: ei kai
    line 408: ei kai
    line 408: exisôteon
    line 410: Loxiai
    line 410: hôst' ou kreontos
    line 410: gegrapsomai
    line 410: Kreontos
    line 415: ar' oistha
    line 415: kai
    line 420: boês de
    line 420: limên
    line 425: ha s' exisôsei
    line 425: ha s'

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2375 [CONCESSIVE CLAUSES]: ei kai turanneis

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

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

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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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