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Professor KENNEDY, D.D., St John's College. President.
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

-ΊΧΪΔΟ·

OEDIPUS.

ΟΙΔΙΠΟΥ2.

THE PRIEST OF ZEUS.

IEPEY2.

CREON.

ΚΡΕΩΝ.

TEIRESIAS.
IOCASTA.

TEIPE2IA2.
IOKA2TH.

A MESSENGER FROM CORINTH.

ΑΓΓΕΛ02.

A HERDSMAN OF LAIUS.

ΘΕΡΑΠΩΝ Λάιου.

A MESSENGER FROM THE PALACE.

EHAITEAOS.

CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS.

XOPOS γερόντων Θηβαίων.

SCENE : An open space in

of the palace of OEDIPUS at Thebes.

The Greek Text and the English Prose translation
Professor JEBB'S second edition of the play (1887), by
himself and the Syndics of the Cambridge University
of the choruses into English verse has been written by Mr

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A. W. VERRALL.

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PREFACE.
THE story of Oedipus, as represented in this death their attention was distracted by a new
play, is as follows: La'fus, king of Thebes, being trouble. The goddess Hera sent the Sphinx to
childless, asked the oracle of Apollo at Delphi afflict them—a monster who sat on a hill near
whether it was fated that a son should be born to Thebes chanting a riddle, and was to prey upon
him. The answer was: 41 will give thee a son, but them till her riddle should be answered. Hope
it is doomed that thou leave the sunlight by the was deserting them, when the wandering stranger,
hands of thy child/ When a son was indeed born Oedipus, arrived and solved the enigma. The
to La'ius of Iocasta his wife, three days after the grateful Thebans gave the vacant throne to their
birth he caused it to be exposed on Mount Cithae- deliverer, who at the same time married Iocasta,
ron. Its feet were fastened together with an iron widow of La'ius, and sister of Creon son of Mencepin, from which maiming the child was afterwards ceus.
called Oedipus (Swellfoot).
The sole survivor from the slaughter of Laius
The man chosen to expose the babe received it was at Thebes when Oedipus ascended the throne.
from the hands of Iocasta herself. He was a slave He presently entreated the queen that he might be
born in the house of La'ius, and was employed in sent to his old occupation of tending flocks in fartending flocks on Mount Cithaeron, where he had off pastures, and his request was granted.
consorted with another herdsman, servant to PolyAn interval of about sixteen years may be
bus, king of Corinth. Seized with pity for the babe, assumed between these events and the opening of
the Theban gave it to this herdsman of Polybus, the play. Iocasta has borne four children to Oe­
who took it to Corinth. Polybus and his wife dipus : Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, Ismene.
Merope, being childless, reared the child as their Oedipus is established as a great king, the first of
own, and the Corinthians regarded him as heir to men, to whom the Thebans turn in every trouble.
the throne. But, having been led to doubt his
And now a great calamity has visited them, a
parentage, he resolved to ask the truth from Apollo pestilence destroying man and beast and the fruit
himself at Delphi. Apollo gave him no answer to of the earth. A body of suppliants—aged priests,
his question, but told him that he was doomed to youths, and children,—present themselves before
slay his father and to wed with his mother. He the wise king. He, if any mortal, can help them.
turned away with the resolve never again to see It is here that the action opens.
his home in Corinth, and on the road encountered
La'ius, accompanied by four attendants. The party
ACT I.
of five met Oedipus at a narrow place, a quarrel
occurred, and Oedipus slew La'ius with three of his
Oedipus pledges himself to relieve his afflicted
four attendants. The fourth fled to Thebes with people by seeking the murderer of La'ius (i—150).
a tale that a band of robbers had fallen upon their The chorus of Theban elders bewail the pestilence
company. This sole survivor was the very man and invoke the gods (151—215).
who had been charged to expose the babe.
Oedipus publicly invokes a solemn curse upon
The Thebans vainly endeavoured to find some the unknown murderer of La'ius. At Creon's sug­
clue to the murder of La'ius. But soon after his gestion he sends for the seer Teiresias, who refuses

PREFACE.

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to'speak, but finally, stung by taunts, denounces
Oedipus himself as the slayer (216—462).
The chorus forbode that the unknown murderer
is doomed; they refuse to believe the unproved
charge brought by the seer (463—512).

ACT II.
Creon protests against the suspicion that he
has suborned Teiresias to accuse Oedipus. Oedipus
is unconvinced. Iocasta stops the quarrel, and
Creon departs. Oedipus then tells her that he
has been charged with the murder of La'ius. She
replies that he need feel no disquietude. Laius,
according to an oracle, was to have been slain by
his own son; but the babe was exposed on the
hills, and La'ius was actually slain by robbers at
the meeting of three roads. Oedipus, alarmed by
the mention of three roads, questions her further.
Her answers confirm his fear that he has unwit­
tingly done the deed. He tells her his story up to
his encounter with La'ius. But he has still one
hope. The attendant of La'ius who escaped spoke
of robbers, not of one robber. Let this survivor,
now a herdsman, be summoned and questioned
(513—862).·
The chorus utter a prayer against arrogance—
such as the king's towards Creon; and impiety—
such as they find in Iocasta's mistrust of oracles
(863—910).

ACT III.
A messenger from Corinth announces that Polybus is dead, and that Oedipus is now king-designate.
Iocasta and Oedipus exult in the refutation of the
oracle which destined Oedipus to slay his sire. But

Oedipus still dreads the other predicted horror—
union with his mother. The messenger, on learn­
ing this, discloses that Polybus and Merope were
not the parents of Oedipus. The messenger him­
self, when a herdsman in the service of Polybus,
had found the infant Oedipus on Cithaeron and had
brought him to Corinth. Yet no—not found him,
but received him from another herdsman, said to be
one of the people of La'ius. Iocasta, now seeing
the truth, implores Oedipus to search no further.
He answers that he cares not how low his birth
may prove to be; he will search to the end. With
a cry of despair Iocasta rushes away (911—1085).
The chorus joyously foretell that Oedipus will
prove to be a native of the land—perchance of seed
divine (1086—1109).
The Theban herdsman is brought in. 'There/
says the Corinthian,4 is the man who gave me the
child.' Bit by bit the whole truth is wrung from
the Theban. 4The babe was the son of La'ius; the
wife of La'ius gave him to me.' Oedipus now knows
all, and with a shriek of misery rushes away. The
chorus bewail the great king's fall (1110—1222).
A messenger from the house announces that
Iocasta has hanged herself, and that Oedipus has
put out his eyes. Presently Oedipus is led forth.
He beseeches the Theban elders to banish or slay
him.
Creon comes to lead him into the house. Oedi­
pus obtains from him a promise of care for his
young daughters; they are presently brought to
their father, who takes what he intends to be a
last farewell. For he craves to be sent out of the
land; but Creon replies that Apollo must decide.
As Creon leads Oedipus within the chorus speak
the closing words : No mortal must be called happy

on this side death.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

A C T I.
An open space in front of the palace of OEDIPUS at Thebes. Before the large central doorway is the altai
of the household gods. Suppliants—old men, youths and children—are discovered, seated on the steps of the
altar, on which they have laid olive-branches wreathed with wool The PRIEST OF ZEUS stands, in an
attitude of supplication, facing the central doorway of the palace.
The doors are thrown open: enter OEDIPUS, and his GUARDS. OEDIPUS gazes silently for a moment at the
groups of suppliants, and then speaks:
Oedipus. My children, latest-born to Cadmus
who was of old, why are ye set before me thus
with wreathed branches of suppliants, while the
city reeks with incense, rings with prayers for
health and cries of woe ? I deemed it unmeet, my
children, to hear these things at the mouth of
others, and have come hither myself, I, Oedipus
renowned of all.
Tell me, then, thou venerable man—since it is
thy natural part to speak for these—in what mood
are ye placed here, with what dread or what desire ?
Be sure that I would gladly give all aid; hard of
heart were I, did I not pity such suppliants as
these.
Priest of Zeus. Nay, Oedipus, ruler of my
land, thou seest of .what years we are who beset
thy altars,—some, nestlings still too tender for far
flights,—some, bowed with age, priests, as I of
Zeus,—and these, the chosen youth; while the
rest of the folk sit with wreathed branches in the
market-places, and before the two shrines of Pallas,
and where Ismenus gives answer by fire.
For the city, as thou thyself seest, is now too
sorely vexed, and can no more lift her head from
beneath the angry waves of death; a blight is on

ΟΙ. Ώ τέκνα, Κάδμου του πάλαι via τροφή,
τίνας ποθ* έδρας τάσδ€ μοι θοάζετε
Ικτηρίοις κλάδοισιν ε&στεμμενοι;
πόλις δ' ομου μεν θυμιαμάτων γίμζι,
ο μου δέ παιάνων τ€ και στεναγμάτων

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άγω δίκαιων μη παρ αγγέλων, τέκνα,
άλλων άκουειν αυτός ωδ' ελήλυθα,
ο πάσι κλεινός Οιδίπους καλούμενος.
άλλ\ ω γεραιε, φράζεπει πρέπων εφυς
προ τωνδε φωνεΐν, τίνι τρόπω καθεστατε,

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δείσαντζς ή στερζαντες; ok θελοντος άν
εμου προσαρκεΐν πάν δυσάλγητος γαρ αν
ειην τοιάνδε μη ου κατοικτείρων εδραν.
ΙΕ, αλλ', ω κρατυνων Οιδίπους χωράς εμης,
, όρα,ς μεν 'ημάς ήλίκοι προσήμεθα

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βωμοισι τοις σοΐς, οι μεν ουδεπω μακράν
πτεσθαι σθενοντες, οι δε συν γηρα> βαρείς,
ιερής, εγω μίν Ζηνός, οΐδε τ ήθεων
λεκτοί· το δ' άλλο φυλον εξεστεμμενον
άγοραΐσι θα κει, προς τε Παλλάδος διπλοί?
ναοΐς, επ Ίσμηνοΰ τε μαντεία σποδω.
πόλις γάρ, ωσπερ καυτός είσορας, άγαν
ήδη σαλεύει κάνακουφίσαι κάρα
βυθών ετ ουχ οία τε φοινίου σάλου,

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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

her in the fruitful blossoms of the land, in the
herds among the pastures, in the barren pangs of
women; and withal the flaming god, the malign
plague, hath swooped on us, and ravages the town ;
by whom the house of Cadmus is made waste, but
dark Hades rich in groans and tears.
It is not as deeming thee ranked with gods
that I and these children are suppliants at thy
hearth, but as deeming thee first of men, J}oth in
life's common chances, and when mortals have to
do with more than man: seeing that thou earnest
to the town of Cadmus, and didst quit us of the
tax that we rendered to the hard songstress; and
this, though thou knewest nothing from us that
could avail thee, nor hadst been schooled; no, by
a god's aid, 'tis said and believed, didst thou uplift
our life.
And now, Oedipus, king glorious in all eyes,
we besdech thee, all we suppliants, to find for us
some succour, whether by the whisper of a god
thou knowest it, or perchance from a man; for I
see that, when men have been proved in deeds
past, the effects of their counsels, too, most often
live.
On, best of mortals, again uplift our State!
On, guard thy fame,-τ—since now this land calls
thee saviour for thy former zeal; and never be it
our memory of thy reign that we were first restored
and afterward cast down : nay, lift up this State in
such wise that it fall no more!
With good omen didst thou give us that past
happiness; now also show thyself the same. For
if thou art to rule this land, even as thou art now
its lord, 'tis better to be lord of men than of a
waste: since neither walled town nor ship is any­
thing, if it is void and no men dwell with thee
therein.
Oe. Oh my piteous children, known, well
known to me are the desires wherewith ye have
come: well wot I that ye suffer all; yet, sufferers
as ye are, there is not one of you whose suffering is
as mine. Your pain comes on each one of you
for himself alone, and for no other; but my soul
mourns at once for the city, and for myself, and
for thee.
So that ye rouse me not, truly, as one sunk in
sleep: no, be sure that I have wept full many
tears, gone many ways in wanderings of thought.
And the sole remedy which, well pondering, I
could find, this I have put into act. I have sent
the son of Menoeceus, Creon, mine own wife's bro-

φθίνουσα μεν κάλυζιν εγκάρποις χθονός,
φθίνουσα δ* άγελαις βοννόμοις τόκοισί τε
άγόνοις γυναικών· εν δ' ό πυρφόρος θεός
σκήψας ελαυνει, λοιμος εχθιστος, πόλιν,
ύφ9 ου κενονται δώμα Καδμεΐον μέλας δ*
"Αιδης στεναγμοΐς και γόοις πλουτίζεται,
θεοΐσι μεν νυν ουκ Ισονμενόν σ εγώ
ου δ* οιδε παΐδες εζόμεσθ* ϊφεστιοι,
ανδρών δε πρώτον εν τ€ συμφοραΐς βίου
κρίνοντες εν τε δαιμόνων ζυναΧλαγαΐς·
0$ y εξελνσας, άστυ Καδμ,εΐον μολών,

σκληράς αοιδού δασμόν ον παρείχομεν
και τ αν θ* υ φ9 ημών ουδέν εξειδώς πλέον
ου δ* εκδιδαχθείς, άλλα προσθήκη θεου

λεγει νομίζει θ' ημίν ορθώσαι βίον
νυν τ, ω κράτιστον πάσιν ΟΙδίπου κάρα,
Ικετενομεν σε πάντες οιδε πρόστροποι
αλκην τιν ενρειν ημίν, είτε του θεών
φημην άκουσας είτ άπ* ανδρός οΐσθά που·
ως τοΐσιν εμπείροισι και τάς ζυμφοράς
ζώσας ορώ μάλιστα τών βουλευμάτων.
ΐθ\ ώ βροτών άριστ, ανόρθωσαν πόλιν
ιθ\ ενλαβηθηθ'' ως σε νυν μεν ηδε γή
σωτήρα κλώζει της πάρος προθυμίας'
αρχής δε της σης μηδαμώς μεμνώμεθα
στάντες τ ες ορθόν και πεσόντες ύστερον,
άλΧ άσφαλεία τήνδ* ανόρθωσον πόλιν.
ορνιθι yap και την τότ αίσίω τνχην
παρέσχες ήμΐν, και τανυν ίσος γενον.
ως ειπερ άρξεις τησδε γης, ώσπερ κρατείς,
ξνν ανδράσιν κάλλιον η κενής κρατεΐν'
ως ουδέν εστίν οντε πνργος ούτε ναυς
έρημος άνδρών μη ζυνοικουντων εσω.
01. ω παΐδες οικτροί, γνωτά κονκ αγνωτά μοι

προσηλθεθ* ιμείροντες' «υ γαρ οιδ* ότι
νοσείτε πάντες, και νοσουντες, ώς εγώ
ουκ Ιστιν υμών όστις εζ Ισου νοσεί.
το μεν γαρ υμών άλγος εις εν

ερχεται

μόνον καθ* αυτόν, κουδεν* άλλον* η δ* εμη
ψυχή πόλιν τε κάμε και σ* όμου στ ενει.
ώστ* οΰχ ϋπνω γ ευδοντά μ εξεγείρετε,
αλλ' ιστέ πολλά μεν με δακρύσαντα δη,

πολλάς δ* όδους ελθόντα φροντίδος πλάνοις.
ην δ* εν σκοπών ενρισκον ϊασιν μόνην,
ταυτην έπραξα' παΐδα γαρ Μ,ενοικεως
Κρεοντ, εμαυτου γαμβρόν, ες τα Πυθικα

OEDIPUS Τ YRANNUS.

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επεμψα Φοίβου δώμαθ , ck πνθοιθ* ο τι
ther, to the Pythian house of Phoebus, to learn by
8ρων η τί φωνών τηνδε ρυσαίμην πόλιν.
what deed or word I might deliver this town. And
already, when the lapse of days is reckoned, it
και μ ημαρ ηδη $υμμ€τρούμενον χρόνω
troubles me what he doth ; for he tarries strangely,
λυπεΐ τί πράσσει' του γαρ άκότος πέρα
beyond the fitting space. But when he comes,
απ€στι πλείω τον καθήκοντος χρόνου.
then shall I be no true man if I do not all that the
οταν δ' ΐκηται, τηνικαυτ εγώ κακός
μη δρών άν ειην πάνθ* ocr' αν δήλοι θεός.
god shows.
Pr. Nay, in season hast thou spoken ; at this ΙΕ. αλλ* €ts καλόν συ τ εΐπας οΐδ€ τ άρτίως
moment these sign to me that Creon draws near.
Κρέοντα προσστείχοντα σημαίνουσί μοι.
Oe. Ο king Apollo, may he come to us in the ΟΙ. ώνα£ ^Απολλον, €t yap iv τνχΎ) γέ τω
brightness of saving fortune, even as his face is
σωτηρι βαίη λάμπρος ώσπερ όμματι.
bright!
Pr. Nay, to all seeming, he brings comfort; ΙΕ. αλλ* εΐκάσαι μέν, ηδύς. ου yap αν κάρα
else would he not be coming crowned thus thickly
πολυστίφής ώδ' ειρπ€ π ayκαρπού δάφνης.
with berry-laden bay.
Oe. We shall know soon: he is at range to ΟΙ. τάχ άσομεσθα' ζνμμετρος yap ως κλνζιν.
ανα£, €μον κηδενμα, παΐ Μίνοικέως,
hear.—Prince, my kinsman, son of Menoeceus, what
news hast thou brought us from the god ?
τίν ήμιν ήκ€ΐς του θεον φημην φέρων;
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Enter CREON, R.
Creon. Good news: I tell thee that even trou­
bles hard to bear,—if haply they find the right
issue,—will end in perfect peace.
Oe. But what is the oracle ? So far, thy
words make me neither bold nor yet afraid.
Cr. If thou wouldest hear while these are nigh,
I am ready to speak ; or else to go within.
Oe. Speak before all: the sorrow which I bear
is for these more than for mine own life.
Cr. With thy leave, I will tell what I heard
from the god. Phoebus our lord bids us plainly to
drive out a defiling thing, which (he saith) hath
been harboured in this land, and not to harbour
that which is past cure.
Oe. By what rite shall we cleanse us ? What
is the manner of the misfortune ?
Cr. By banishing a man, or by bloodshed in
quittance of bloodshed, since it is that blood which
brings the tempest on our city.
Oe. And who is the man whose fate he thus
reveals ?
Cr. La'ius, king, was lord of our land before
thou wast pilot of this State.
Oe. I know it well—by hearsay, for I saw him
never.
Cr. He was slain; and the god now bids us
plainly to wreak vengeance on his murderers—
whosoever they be.

KP. Ισθλήν'

λέγω γαρ και τα δύσφορ', €t τυχοι

κατ ορθον εξελθόντα, παντ αν εντνχειν.
ΟΙ. εστίν δε ποιον τουπος; οϋτ€ γαρ θρασνς
ουτ9 ονν προδείσας είμϊ τω γ€ νυν λόγω.

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100

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τους αυτοέντας χειρι τιμωρεΐν τινας.

I—2

4

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Oe. And where are they upon the earth ?
Where shall the dim track of this old crime be
found ?
Cr. In this land,—said the god. What is
sought for can be caught; only that which is not
watched escapes.
Oe. And was it in the house, or in the field,
or on strange soil that Laius met this bloody end ?
Cr. 'Twas on a visit to Delphi, as he said, that
he had left our land ; and he came home no more,
after he had once set forth.
Oe. And was there none to tell ? Was there
no comrade of his journey who saw the deed, from
whom tidings might have been gained, and used ?
Cr. All perished, save one who fled in fear,
and could tell for certain but one thing of all that
he saw.
Oe. And what was that? One thing might
show the clue to many, could we get but a small
beginning for hope.
Cr. He said that robbers met and fell on
them, not in one man's might, but with full many
hands.
Oe. How, then, unless there was some traffick­
ing in bribes from here, should the robber have
dared thus far ?
Cr. Such things were surmised; but, Laius
once slain, amid our troubles no avenger arose.
Oe. But, when royalty had fallen thus, what
trouble in your path can have hindered a full
search ?
Cr. The riddling Sphinx had made us let dark
things go, and was inviting us to think of what lay
at our doors.
Oe. Nay, I will start afresh, and once more
make dark things plain. Right worthily hath
Phoebus, and worthily hast thou, bestowed this
care on the cause of the dead ; and so, as is meet,
ye shall find me too leagued with you in seeking
vengeance for this land, and for the god besides.
On behalf of no far-off friend, no, but in mine own
cause, shall I dispel this taint. For whoever was
the slayer of Laius might wish to take' vengeance
on me also with a hand as fierce. Therefore, in
doing right to Laius, I serve myself.
Come,. haste ye, my children, rise from the
altar-steps, and lift these suppliant boughs; and
let some other summon hither the folk of Cadmus,
warned that I mean to leave naught untried; for
our health (with the god's help) shall be made
certain—or our ruin.

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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

5

OEDIPUS and CREON retire into the palace.

Pr. My children, let us rise; we came at first
to seek what this man promises of himself. And
may Phoebus, who sent these oracles, come to us
therewith, our saviour and deliverer from the pest.

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και δεΰρ* εβημεν ων δδ* εξαγγέλλεται.
Φοίβος δ' ο πέμψας τάσδε μαντείας άμα
σωτηρ θ* ικοιτο και νόσου παυστηριος.

150

The PRIEST and the suppliants leave the stage. Enter the CHORUS.

Chorus. Ο sweetly-speaking message of Zeus,
in what spirit hast thou come from golden Pytho
unto glorious Thebes ? I am on the rack, terror
shakes my soul, Ο thou Delian Healer to whom
wild cries rise, in holy fear of thee, what thing thou
wilt work for me, perchance unfelt before, per­
chance returning in the fulness of the years: tell
me, thou immortal Voice, born of golden Hope!
First call I on thee, daughter of Zeus, divine
Athene, and on thy sister, guardian of our land,
Artemis, who sits on her glorious throne above the
circle of our Agora, and on Phoebus the far-darter :
Ο shine forth on me, my threefold help against
death! If ever aforetime, in arrest of ruin hurrying
on the city, ye drove a fiery pest beyond our
borders, come now alsq!
Woe is me, countless are the sorrows that I
bear; a plague is on all our host, and thought can
find no weapon for defence. The fruits of the glo­
rious earth grow not; by no birth of children do
women surmount the pangs in which they shriek;
and life on life mayest thou see sped, like bird on
nimble wing, aye, swifter than resistless fire, to the
shore of the western god.
By such deaths past numbering, the city pe­
rishes : unpitied, her children lie on the ground,
spreading pestilence, with none to mourn: and
meanwhile young wives, and grey-haired mothers
with them, uplift a wail at the steps of the altars,
some here, some there, entreating for their weary
woes. The prayer to the Healer rings clear, and,
blent therewith, the voice of lamentation: for these
things, golden daughter of Zeus, send us the bright
face of comfort.
And grant that the fierce god of death, who
now with no brazen shields, yet amid cries as of
battle, wraps me in the flame of his onset, may
turn his back in speedy flight from our land, borne
by a fair wind to the great deep of Amphitrit£, or
to those waters in which none find haven, even to
the Thracian wave; for if night leave aught undone,
day follows to accomplish this. Ο thou who
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6

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Ο Zeus our father, slay him beneath thy thunder­
bolt.

αστραπαν κράτη νεμων,
ώ Zed πάτερ, υπό σώ φθίσον κεραννώ.

OEDIPUS enters from the palace.

Lycean King, fain were I that thy shafts also,
from thy bent bow's string of woven gold, should
go abroad in their might, our champions in the
face of the foe; yea, and the flashing fires of Ar­
temis wherewith she glances through the Lycian
hills. And I call him whose locks are bound with
gold, who is named with the name of this land,
ruddy Bacchus to whom Bacchants cry, the com­
rade of the Maenads, to draw near with the blaze
of his blithe torch, our ally against the god unhonoured among gods.
Oe. Thou prayest; and in answer to thy
prayer,—if thou wilt give a loyal welcome to my
words and minister to thine own disease,—thou
mayest hope to find succour and relief from woes.
These words will I speak publicly, as one who has
been a stranger to this report, a stranger to the
deed; for I could not have tracked it far by my­
self, not having a clue. But as it is,—since it was
pnly after the time of the deed that I was numbered
a Theban among Thebans,—to you, the Cadmeans
all, I do thus proclaim.
Whosoever of you knows by whom La'ius son
of Labdacus was slain, I bid him to tell all to me.
And if he is afraid, I bid him to remove the danger
of the charge from his own path; for he shall
suffer nothing else unlovely, but only leave the
land, unhurt. Or if anyone knows an alien, from
another land, as the assassin, let him not keep
silence; for I will pay his guerdon, and my thanks
shall rest with him besides.
But if ye keep silence—if anyone, through
fear, shall seek to screen friend or self' from
my behest—hear ye what I then shall do.
I charge you that no one of this land, whereof I hold
the empire and the throne, give shelter or speak
word unto that murderer, whosoever he be,—make
him partner of his prayer or sacrifice,—or serve him
with the lustral rite; but that all ban him their
homes, knowing that this is our defiling thing, as
the oracle of the Pythian god hath newly shown
me. I then am on this wise the ally of the god and
of the slain. And I pray solemnly that the slayer,
whoso he be, whether his hidden guilt is lonely or
hath partners, evilly, as he is evil, may wear out his
unblest life. And for myself I pray that if, with

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βέλεα θέλοιμ αν άδάματ ενδατ€ΐσθαι
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κατεύχομαι δε τον δεδρακότ, ειτε τις

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
my privity, he should become an inmate of my
house, I may suffer the same things which even
now I called down upon others. And on you I
lay it to make all these words good, for my sake,
and for the sake of the god, and for our land's, thus
blasted with barrenness by angry heaven.
For even if the matter had not been urged on
us by-a god, it was not meet that ye should leave
the guilt thus unpurged, when one so noble, and
he your king, had perished ; rather were ye bound
to search it out. And now, since 'tis I who hold
the powers which once he held, who possess his
bed and the wife who bare seed to him ; and since,
had his hope of issue not been frustrate, children
born of one mother would have made ties betwixt
him and me—but, as it was, fate swooped upon his
head; by reason of these things will I uphold his
cause, even as the cause of mine own sire, and will
leave nought untried in seeking to find him whose
hand shed that blood, for the honour of the son of
Labdacus and of Polydorus and elder Cadmus and
Agenor who was of old.
And for those who obey me not, I pray that the
gods send them neither harvest of the earth nor
fruit of the womb, but that they be wasted by their
lot that now is, or by one yet more dire. But for
all you, the loyal folk of Cadmus to whom these
things seem good, may Justice, our ally, and all the
gods be with you graciously for ever.
Ch. As thou hast put me on my oath, on my
oath, Ο king, I will speak. I am not the slayer,
nor can I point to him who slew. As for the
question, it was for Phoebus, who sent it, to
tell us this thing—who can have wrought the
deed.
Oe. Justly said; but no man on the earth can
force the gods to what they will not.
Ch. I would fain say what seems to me next
best after this.
Oe. If there is yet a third course, spare not to
show it.
Ch. I know that our lord Teiresias is the seer
most like to our lord Phoebus; from whom/ Ο
king, a searcher of these things might learn them
most clearly.
Oe. Not even this have I left out of my cares.
On the hint of Creon, I have twice sent a man to
bring him ; and this long while I marvel why he is
not here.
Ch. Indeed (his skill apart) the rumours are
but faint and old.

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κακόν κακώς νιν άμορον εκτρΐψαι βίον.
επενχομαι δ', οικοισιν el ζννεστιος
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γης ωδ' άκάρπως κάθεως εφθαρμενης.
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το δε ζητημα τον πεμψαντος ην

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ΟΙ. δίκαι ελεζας' αλλ* άναγκάσαι θεούς
αν μη θελωσιν ουδ* αν είς δνναιτ ανηρ.
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επεμψα γάρ Κ ρέοντος είπόντος διπλούς
πομπούς' πάλαι δε μη παρών θαυμάζεται.
ΧΟ. και μην τά γ' άλλα κωφά και παλαι επη.

8

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Oe. What rumours are they ? I look to every
story.
Ch. Certain wayfarers were said to have killed
him.
Oe. I, too, have heard it, but none sees him
who saw it.
Ck. Nay, if he knows what fear is, he will not
stay when he hears thy curses, so dire as they
are.
Oe. When a man shrinks not from a deed,
neither is he scared by a word.

ΟΙ. τά ποία ταύτα; πάντα yap σκοπώ λογον.
ΧΟ. θανεΐν ελεχθη πρός τίνων οδοιπόρων.
01. ήκονσα καγώ* τον δ' ίδόντ ονδείς όρα.
ΧΟ. αλλ' €i τι μεν δη δείματός γ" €χ« μερος,
τάς σας ακονων συ μενεΐ τοιάσδ' αράς.
01. φ μη 'στι δρώντι τάρβος, ουδ' €7τος φοβεΐ.

TEIRESIAS enters, conducted by an attendant

Ch. But there is one to convict him. For
here they bring at last the godlike prophet, in
whom alone of men doth live the truth.
Oe. Teiresias, whose soul grasps all things,
the lore that naay be told and the unspeakable, the
secrets of heaven and the low things of earth,—thou
feelest, though thou canst not see, what a plague
doth haunt our State,—from which, great prophet,
we find in thee our protector and only saviour.
Now, Phoebus—if indeed thou knowest it not from
the messengers—sent answer to our question that
the only riddance from this pest which could come
was if we should learn aright the slayers of Laius,
and slay them, or send them into exile from our
land. Do thou, then, grudge neither voice of birds
nor any other way of seer-lore that thou hast, but
rescue thyself and the State, rescue me, rescue all
that is defiled by the dead. For we are in thy
hand; and man's noblest task is to help others by
his best means and powers.
Teiresias. Alas, how dreadful to have wisdom
where it profits not the wise! Aye, I knew this
well, but let it slip out of mind ; else would I never
have come here.
Oe. What now ? How sad thou hast come in !
Te. Let me go home ; 'twill be best that thou
bear thine own burden to the end, and I mine—
if thou wilt heed me.
Oe. Thy words are strange, nor kindly to this
State which nurtured thee, when thou withholdest
this response.
Te. Nay, I see that thou, on thy part, openest
not thy lips in season: therefore I speak not, that
neither may I have thy mishap.
Oe. For the love of the gods, turn not away,
if thou hast knowledge : all we suppliants implore
thee on our knees.

XO, αλλ' ονζελεγξων αντον εστίν· οΐδε yap
τον θείον ήδη μάντιν ώδ' άγονσιν, ω
τάληθες εμπεφνκεν ανθρώπων μόνω.
01. ώ πάντα νωμών Τειρεσία, διδακτά τ€
άρρητά τ', ονράνιά τε και χθονοστιβή,
πόλιν μεν, εί και μη βλέπεις, φρονείς δ' ομως
οία νόσω συν εστίν' ης σε προστάτην
σωτήρα τ', ώνα£, μοΰνον Ιζενρίσκο μεν.
Φοίβος yap, εί και μη κλνεις των αγγέλων,
πεμψασιν ήμΐν άντεπεμψεν, εκλνσιν
μόνην αν ελθεΐν τον δε τον νοσήματος,
ει τονς κτανόντας Αάΐον μαθόντες εν
κτ είναιμεν, η γης φνγάδας εκπεμψαιμεθα.
σν δ' οΖν φθονησας μητ απ οιωνών φάτιν
μήτ

εί τιν άλλην μαντικής Ζχεις οδόν,

ρ£σαι σεαντον και πόλιν, ρνσαι δ' εμε,
ρνσαι δε παν μίασμα τον τεθνηκότος.
εν σοι γαρ εσμεν' άνδρα δ' ώφελεΐν αφ* ων
εχοι τε και δνναιτο κάλλιστος πόνων.

TE. φευ φεν, φρονεΐν ως δεινόν ενθα μη τέλη
λύγι φρονονντι.

ταύτα γαρ καλώς εγώ

€ΐδώς διώλ€σ'· ου γαρ αν δεν ρ* Ικόμην.
01. τι δ' εστίν; ως άθνμος είσεληλνθας.

TE. άφες μ' ες οϊκονς' ραστα γαρ τό σον τε σν
καγώ διοίσω τονμόν, ην εμοι πίθτ).
01. οντ εννομ! εΐπας οντε προσφιλή πόλει

τηδ\ ή σ εθρεψε, τήνδ* άποστερών φάτιν.

TE. ορώ γαρ ονδε σοι το σον φώνημ ιδν
προς καιρόν' ώ§ ονν μηδ* εγώ ταντόν πάθω.
01. μη προς θεών φρονών γ* άποστραφ^ς, επει
πάντες σε προσκννονμεν οιδ' ικτηριοι.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Te. Aye, for ye are all without knowledge; but
never will I reveal my griefs—that I say not thine.
Oe. How sayest thou ? Thou knowest the
secret, and wilt not tell it, but art minded to betray
us and to destroy the State ?
Te. I will pain neither myself nor thee. Why
vainly ask these things ? Thou wilt not learn
them from me.
Oe. What, basest of the base, — for thou
wouldest anger a very stone,—wilt thou never
speak out ? Can nothing touch thee ? Wilt thou
never make an end ?
Te. Thou blamest my temper, but seest not
that to which thou thyself art wedded: no, thou
findest fault with me.
Oe. And who would not be angry to hear the
words with which thou now dost slight this city ?
Te. The future will come of itself, though I
shroud it in silence.
Oe. Then, seeing that it must come, thou on
thy part should'st tell me thereof.
Te. I will speak no further ; rage, then, if thou
wilt, with the fiercest wrath thy heart doth know.
Oe. Aye, verily, I will not spare—so wroth I
am—to speak all my thought. Know that thou
seemest to me e'en to have helped in plotting the
deed, and to have done it, short of slaying with thy
hands. Hadst thou eye-sight, I would have said
that the doing, also, of this thing was thine alone.
Te. In sooth ?—I charge thee that thou abide
by the decree of thine own mouth, and from this
day speak neither to these nor to me : thou art the
accursed defiler of this land.
Oe. So brazen with thy blustering taunt?
And wherein dost thou trust to escape thy due ?
Te. I have escaped: in my truth is my
strength.
Oe. Who taught thee this ? It was not, at
least, thine art.
Te. Thou: for thou didst spur me into speech
against my will.
Oe. What speech ? Speak again, that I may
learn it better.
Te. Didst thou not take my sense before ?
Or art thou tempting me in talk ?
Oe. No, I took it not so that I can call it
known speak again.
Te. I say that thou art the slayer of the man
whose slayer thou seekest.
Oe. Now thou shalt rue that thou hast twice
said words so dire.

TE. πάντες yap ού φρονεΐτ,

εγώ δ' ού μη ποτε

τάμ!, ως άν ειπώ μη τα σ', εκφηνω κακά.
ΟΙ. τι φ-βς; ζυνειδώς ού φράσεις, αλλ' εννοεΐς
ημάς προδούναι και καταφθεΐραι πόλιν;
ΤΕ. εγώ οντ

εμαυτόν ούτε σ

άλγννω.

τί ταΰτ

άλλως ελεγχείς; ού yap άν πυθοιό μον.
ΟΙ. ουκ, ω κακών κάκιστε, και yap αν πέτρου
φύσιν συ y οργάνειας, ε$ερεΐς ποτέ,
αλλ' ώδ' άτεγκτος κάτελεύτητος φάνει;
ΤΕ. όργην εμεμψω την εμην, την ση ν δ' ομου
ναίουσαν ού κατεΐδες, αλλ* εμε ψέγεις.
ΟΙ. τις yap τοιαυτ

άν ουκ άν οργίζοιτ εττη

κλνων, α νυν σν τηνδ' ατιμάζεις πολιν;
ΤΕ. ηξει γα ρ αυτά, καν εγώ σιγ$ στεγω. ψ
ΟΙ. ονκονν α y ηζει και σε χρη λεγειν Ιμοί.
ΤΕ. ουκ άν περα φράσαιμι*

προς ταδ', ει θελεις,

θυμού Si οργής ητις άγριωτάτη.
ΟΙ. και μην παρησω γ
άπερ ζυνίημ.

ουδέν, ως οργής εχω,

ϊσθι γαρ δοκών εμοι

και ξυμφυτεΰσαι τουργον, ειργάσθαι & οσον
μη χερσι καινών' εΐ δ* ετύγχανες βλέπων,
και τουργον άν σου τουτ εφην είναι μόνου.
ΤΕ, άληθες; εννέπω σε τω κηρυγματι
ωπερ προεΐπας εμμενειν, κάφ' ημέρας
της νυν προσαυδάν μήτε τούσδε μητ

εμε,

ως οντι γτ)ς τ^σδ' άνοσίω μιάστορι.
ΟΙ. ούτως άναιδως εζεκίνησας τοδβ
το ρημα; και που τούτο φεύξεσθαι δοκεΐς;
ΤΕ, πεφευγα' τάληθες γαρ ισχύον τρέφω.
ΟΙ. προς του διδαχθείς; ου γαρ εκ γε της τέχνης.
ΤΕ. προς σου' συ γαρ μ άκοντα προυτρέψω λέγειν.
ΟΙ. ποιον λογον; λέγ' αύθις, ώς μάλλον μάθω.
ΤΕ. ουχι ξυνηκας πρόσθενj η 'κπειρα λέγων;
ΟΙ, ουχ ώστε γ ειπείν γνωστόν' αλλ* αύθις φράσον.
ΤΕ. φονέα σε φημί τάνδρος ου ζητείς κυρεΐν.
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ΟΙ. αλλ* ου τι χαίρων δις γε πημονάς ερεΐς.

ΙΟ

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS,

Te. Would'st thou have me say more, that
thou mayest be more wroth ?
Oe. What thou wilt; it.will be said in vain.
Te, I say that thou hast been living in unguessed shame with thy nearest kin, and seest not
to what woe thou hast come.
Oe. Dost thou indeed think that thou shalt
always speak thus without smarting ?
Te, Yes, if there is any strength in truth.
Oe, Nay, there is,—for all save thee ; for thee
that strength is not, since thou art maimed in ear,
and in wit, and in eye.
Te. Aye, and thou art a poor wretch to utter
taunts which every man here will soon hurl at
thee.
Oe, Night, endless night hath thee in her
keeping, so that thou canst never hurt me, or any
man who sees the sun.
Te, No, thy doom is not to fall by me:
Apollo is enough, whose care it is to work that out.
Oe, Are these Creon's devices, or thine ?
Te, Nay, Creon is no plague to thee; thou
art thine own.
Oe. Ο wealth and empire and skill outmatching
skill in life's keen rivalries, how great is the envy
that cleaves to you, if for the sake, yea, of this
power which the city hath put into my hands,
a gift unsought, Creon the trusty, Creon mine old
friend, hath crept on me by stealth, yearning to
thrust me out of it, and hath suborned such a
scheming juggler as this, a tricky quack, who hath
eyes only for his gains, but in his art is blind ?
Come, now, tell me, where hast thou proved
thyself a seer ? Why, when the Watcher was here
who wove dark song, didst thou say nothing that
could free this folk ? Yet the riddle, at least, was
not for the first comer to read; there was need of
a seer s skill; and none such thou wert found to
have, either by help of birds, or as known from
any god : no, I came, I, Oedipus the ignorant, and
made her mute, when I had seized the answer by
my wit, untaught of birds. And it is I whom thou
art trying to oust, thinking to stand close to Creon's
throne. Methinks thou and the plotter of these
things will rue your zeal to purge the land. Nay,
didst thou not seem to be an old man, thou should'st
have learned to thy cost how bold thou art.
Ch, To our thinking both this man's words
and thine, Oedipus, have been said in anger. Not
for such words is our need; but to seek how best
we shall discharge the mandates of the god.

TE.

ειπώ τι δητα κάλλ*, ίν' όργίζη πλέον;

ΟΙ. όσον γε χρήζεις' ως μάτην είρησεται,

365

ΤΕ. λεληθέναι σε φημι συν τοις φιλτάτοις
αισγισθ* όμιλουντ, οΰδ' όραν ιν εΤ κακόν.
ΟΙ. η και γεγηθώς ταντ άει λέγειν δοκεΐς;
ΤΕ. ειπ€p τι y εστί της αληθείας σθένος,
ΟΙ. αλλ'

εστί, πλην σοι' σοϊ δε τουτ ουκ εστ, επει

370

τυφλός τά τ ώτα τόν Τ€ νουν τά τ' ομματ ει,
ΤΕ. σύ δ' άθλιος

γ ε ταντ όνειδίζων, ά σοϊ

ούδεις ος ούχϊ τώνδ' όνειδιεΐ τάχα.
ΟΙ. μιας

τρέφει προς νυκτός, ώστε μητ ε με

μητ άλλον, όστις φως ο ρα, βλάψαι ποτ αν.
ΤΕ.

ου yap σε μοίρα προς y ε μου πεσειν, επεί

ΟΙ.

Κ ρέοντος

375

Ικανός 'Απόλλων, ω τάδ' έκπράζαι μέλει,
ΤΕ. KpeW

η σου ταύτα τ άζ ευ ρήματα;

δέ σοι πημ ουδέν, αλλ' αυτός συ σοι.

ΟΙ. ώ πλούτε και τυραννΐ και τέχνη τέχνης
ύπερφέρουσα τω πολυζηλω βίω,
όσος παρ' υμΐν ο φθόνος φυλάσσεται,
εί τησδέ y άρχης ουνεχ, ην εμοι πολις
δωρητόν, ουκ αιτητόν, είσεχείρισεν,
ταύτης Κρέων ό πιστός, ου ξ άρχης φίλος
λάθρα μ υπελθων εκβαλεΐν Ιμείρετat,

380

385

υφεις μάγον τοιόνδε μηχανορράφον,
δόλιον άγυρτην, όστις εν τοις κέρδεσιν
μόνον δέδορκε, την τέχνην δ' εφυ τυφλός.
επεί, φέρ είπέ, που συ μάντις εί σαφής;

390

ττώς ουχ, δθ' η ραψωδός ενθάδ' ην κύων,
ηυδας τι τοισδ' άστοΐσιν εκλυτηριον;
καίτοι τό y αινιγμ ουχι τουπιόντος ην
άνδρός διειπεΐν, άλλα μαντείας έδει'
ην ουτ άπ οιωνών συ προυφάνης έχων

395

ουτ εκ θεών του γνωτον' αλλ' €γω μολών,
ο μηδέν είδώς ΟΙΒίπους, επαυσά νιν,
γνώμη κυρησας οΰδ' άπ οιωνών μαθών'
ον δη συ πείρας εκβαλεΐν, δοκών θρόνοις
παραστατησειν τοις Κ,ρεοντείοις πέλας,

400

κλαίων δοκεΐς μοι και συ χω σννθεις τάδε
άγηλατησειν' εί δέ μη 'δόκεις γέρων
είναι, παθών έγνως αν οΐά περ φρονείς,
ΧΟ. ημΐν μεν εΐκάζουσι και τά τουδ' έπη
°ργδ λελέχθαι και τά σ', Οϊδίπου, δοκεΐ.
δει δ' ου τοιούτων, άλλ' οττως τά του θεου
μ&ντεί άριστα λύσομεν, τόδε σκοπεΐν.

405

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Te. King though thou art, the right of reply,
at least, must be deemed the same for both; of
that I too am lord. Not to thee do I live servant,
but to Loxias ; and so I shall not stand enrolled
under Creon for my patron. And I tell thee—
since thou hast taunted me even with blindness—
that thou hast sight, yet seest not in what misery
thou art, nor where thou dwellest, nor with whom.
Dost thou know of what stock thou art? And
thou hast been an unwitting foe to thine own kin,
in the shades, and on the earth above; and the
double lash of thy mother's and thy father's curse
shall one day drive thee from this land in dreadful
haste, with darkness then on the eyes that now see
true.
And what place shall not be harbour to thy
shriek, what of all Cithaeron shall not ring with it
soon, when thou hast caught the meaning of the
marriage-song wherewith thou wert borne to thy
fatal haven in yonder house, after a voyage so fair ?
And a throng of other ills thou guessest not, which
shall make thee level with thy true self and with
thine own brood.
Therefore heap thy scorns on Creon and on my
message: for no one among men shall ever be
crushed more miserably than thou.
Oe. Are these taunts to be indeed borne from
him ?—Hence, ruin take thee! Hence, this instant!
Back !—away!—avaunt thee from these doors !
Te. I had never come, not I, hadst thou not
called me.
Oe. I knew not that thou wert about to speak
folly, or it had been long ere I had sent for thee to
my house.
Te. Such am I,—as thou thinkest, a fool; but
for the parents who begat thee, sane.
• Oe. What parents? Stay...and who of men
is my sire ?
Te. This day shall show thy birth and shall
bring thy ruin.
Oe. What riddles, what dark words thou always
speakest!
Te. Nay, art not thou most skilled to unravel
dark speech ?
Oe. Make that my reproach in which thou
shalt find me great.
Te. Yet 'twas just that fortune that undid thee.
Oe. Nay, if I delivered this town, I care not.
Te. Then I will go: so do thou, boy, take me
hence.
Oe. Aye, let him take thee: while here, thou

II

TE. el και τυραννεΐς, εζισωτεον το γονν
ισ άντιλεξαι' τούδε γαρ κάγώ κρατώ.
ου γαρ τι σοι ζώ δούλο?, άλλα Αοξία'

no

ωστ ον Κρέοντος ττροστάτον γεγράψομαι.
λεγω δ', επειδή και τνφλάν μ ώνειδισας'
crv και δεδορκας κού βλέπεις ιν ει κακόν,
ούδ' ένθα ναίεις, ούδ* οτων οικείς μετά.
αρ9 οισθ* αφ' ων ει; και λεληθας εχθρός ων

415

τοις σοισιν αντον νερθε κάπι γης άνω,
και σ' αμφιπλήξ μητρός τε καϊ του σου πατρός
ελφ, ποτ εκ γης τησΒε δεινόπους αρά,
βλέποντα ννν μεν ορθ\ επειτα δε σκότον.
βοής δε της σης ποιος ονκ εσται λιμην,

420

ποίος Κιθαιρών ονχι σύμφωνος τάχα,
οταν καταίσθχι τον νμεναιον, ον δόμοις
ανορμον είσεπλευσας, ενπλοίας τνχων;
άλλων δε πλήθος ονκ επαισθάνει κακών,
α σ εξισώσει σοι τε και τοις σοις τέκνοις.

425

προς ταύτα και Κρέοντα και τονμον στόμα
προπηλάκιζε* σον γαρ ονκ εστίν βροτών
κάκιον όστις εκτριβησεταί ποτε.
ΟΙ. η ταντα δητ ανεκτά προς τούτον κλύειν;
ονκ είς όλεθρον; ονχ ι θάσσον; ον πάλιν

430

άψορρος οίκων τώνδ* άποστραφεΧς άπει;
ΤΕ. ούδ' ικόμην εγωγ* αν, ει σύ μη 'καλείς.
ΟΙ. ον γάρ τι σ' Ύ}δη μώρα φωνησοντ, επει
σχολτ) σ αν οίκους τονς εμονς εστειλάμην.
ΤΕ. ημείς τοιοίδ' εφνμεν, ως μεν σοι δοκεΐ,

435

μώροι, γονενσι δ', οι σ' εφνσαν, εμφρονες.
ΟΙ. ποιοισι; μεινον.

τις δε μ! εκφύει βροτών ;

ΤΕ. ηδ' ήμερα φύσει σε καϊ διαφθερεΐ.
ΟΙ. ώς πάντ άγαν αινικτά κάσαφη λεγεις.
ΤΕ. ονκονν σύ ταυτ' άριστος ενρίσκειν εφνς;

440

ΟΙ. τοιαντ όνείδιζ οίς εμ ενρησεις μεγαν.
ΤΕ. αντη γε μεντοι σ* η τύχτ) διώλεσεν.
ΟΙ. αλλ' ει πόλιν τηνδ' εζεσωσ*, ον μοι μελεΐ.
ΤΕ. άπειμι τοίννν' και σύ, παΐ, κόμιζε με.
ΟΙ. κομιζετω δήθ*' ώς πάρων σύ γ' εμποδών

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12

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

art a hindrance, thou, a trouble: when thou hast
vanished, thou wilt not vex me more.
Te. I will go when I have done mine errand,
fearless of thy frown : for thou canst never destroy
me. And I tell thee—the man of whom thou hast
this long while been in quest, uttering threats, and
proclaiming a search into the murder of La'ius—
that man is here,—in seeming, an alien sojourner;
but anon he shall be found a native Theban, and
shall not be glad of his fortune. A blind man,
he who now hath sight, a beggar, who now is rich,
he shall make his way to a strange land, feeling
the ground before him with his staff. And he shall
be found at once brother and father of the children
with whom he consorts ; son and husband of the
woman who bore him; heir to his fathers bed,
shedder of his father's blood.
So go thou in and think on that; and if thou
find that I have been at fault, say thenceforth that
I have no wit in prophecy.

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λεγω δε σοι' τον άνδρα τούτον, ον πάλαι
ζητεΐς απειλών κάνα κηρύσσων φάνον

450

τον AaUcov, ουτός εστίν ενθαδε,
ξένος λόγω μέτοικος, εΐτα δ* εγγενής
φανησεται Θηβαίος, ουδ* ησθησεται
rfj £υμφορα * τυφλός yap εκ δεδορκοτος
και πτωχός αντί, πλουσίου

ξενην επι

455

σκηπτρω προδεικνυς γαΐαν εμπορευσεται.
φανησεται δε παισι τοις αυτόν ζννών
αδελφός αυτός καϊ πατήρ, κάζ ης εφυ
γυναικός υΐός και πόσις, και του πατρός
όμόσπορός τ€ και φονευς.

και ταυτ Ιων

460

εισω λογίζου' καν λάβης εψευσμενον,
φάσκειν Ιμ ηδη μαντική μηδέν φρονεΐν.

OEDIPUS retires into the palace; TEIRESIAS is led off by his attendant.

Chorus.
Who is he of whom the divine voice from the
Delphian rock hath spoken, as having wrought
with red hands horrors that no tongue can tell ?
It is time that he ply in flight a foot stronger
than the feet of storm-swift steeds: for the son of
Zeus is springing on him, all armed with fiery
lightnings, and with him come the dread, un­
erring Fates.
Yea, newly given from snowy Parnassus, the
message hath flashed forth to make all search for
the unknown man. Into the wild wood's covert,
among caves and rocks he is roaming, fierce as a
bull, wretched and forlorn on his joyless path, still
seeking to put from him the doom spoken at
Earth's central shrine: but that doom ever lives,
ever flits around him.
Dreadly, in sooth, dreadly doth the wise augur
move me, who approve not, nor am able to deny.
How to speak, I know not; I am fluttered with
forebodings; neither in the present have I clear
vision, nor of the future. Never in past days, nor
in these, have I heard how the house of Labdacus
or the son of Polybus had, either against other,
any grief that I could bring as proof in assailing
the public fame of Oedipus, and seeking to avenge
the line of Labdacus for the undiscovered murder.

XO. τις οντιν ά θεσπιεπεια ΔελφΙς εΐπε πέτρα
άρρητ άρρητων τελεσαντα φοινίαισι γερσίν;
ώρα νιν άελλάδων
ίππων σθεναρωτερον
φυγα 7Γοδα νωμάν.
ένοπλος γαρ επ αυτόν επενθρωσκει
ττυρι και στεροπαις ο Διος γ€ν€τας,
δειναι δ' άμ έπονται
Κ.ηρ€ς άναπλάκητοι,

στρ. α',
465

470

ελαμψε γαρ του νιφόεντος άρτίως φανεΐσα
άντ. α.
φάμα ΊΙαρνασου τον αδηλον άνδρα πάντ ίχνεύειν.
φοίτα γαρ υπ* άγρίαν
476
υλαν ανά τ άντρα και
πέτρας ίσόταυρος,
μελεος μελεω ποδι χηρεύων,
τα μτσόμφαλα γάς άπονοσφίζων
480
μαντεία* τα δ' άει
ζωντα περιποτάται,
μεν ουν, δεινά ταράσσει σοφός οίωνο- στρ. β'.
θετας,
483
οϋτε δοκουντ ουτ άποφάσκονθ*· δ τι λε£ω δ* άπορω. 485
πετομαι δ' ελπίσιν ουτ ενθάδ* όρων ουτ οπίσω.
τι γάρ η Ααβδακίδαις
η τω ΐίολύβου νεΐκος εκειτ ούτε πάροιθεν ποτ εγωγ
οϋτε τανυν πω
εμαθον, προς οτου δη βασανίζων βασάνω
€7τι τάν επίδαμον φάτιν εΤμ Οιδίποδα Ααβδακίδαις
495
επίκουρος άδηλων θανάτων.

δεινά

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Nay, Zeus indeed arid Apollo are keen of
thought, and know the things of earth; but that
mortal seer wins knowledge above mine, of this
there can be no sure test; though man may
surpass man in lore. Yet, until I see the word
made good, never will I assent when men blame
Oedipus. Before all eyes, the winged maiden
came against him of old, and he was seen to be
wise ; he bore the test, in welcome service to our
State; never, therefore, by the verdict of my
heart shall he be adjudged guilty of crime.

13

αλλ* ο /xev ovv Ζ ευ? ο τ Απόλλων ζυνετοί και τα
β ρότων
αντ. β'.
είδότες· ανδρών δ* ότι μαντις πλε'ον η 'γώ φερεται, 500
κρίσις ουκ εστίν αληθής' σοφία δ* αν σοφίαν
τταραμείψειεν ανηρ.
αλλ* ουποτ εγωγ' αν, πριν ϊδοιμ9 ορθόν επος, μ*μφομενων αν καταφαίην.
φανερά γαρ επ αντω πτεροεσσ* ^λ^ε κόρα
7ΓΟΤ6, και σοφός ωφθη βασάνω θ9 άδυπολις* τω απ'
εμας
510
φρενός ουποτ9 οφλήσει κακία ν.

End of ACT L

Η

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

ACT

II.

The scene is the same as for ACT

I.

Enter the CHORUS and CREON.

Creon. Fellow-citizens, having learned that
Oedipus the king lays dire charges against me, I
am here, indignant. If, in the present troubles, he
thinks that he has suffered from me, by word or
deed, aught that tends to harm, in truth I crave not
my full term of years, when I must bear such
blame as this. The wrong of this rumour touches
me not in one point alone, but has the largest
scope, if I am to be called a traitor in the city, a
traitor too by thee and by my friends.
Ch. Nay, but this taunt came under stress,
perchance, of anger, rather than from the purpose
of the heart.
Cr. And the saying was uttered that my
counsels won the seer to utter his falsehoods ?
Ch, Such things were said—I know not with
what meaning.
Cr. And was this charge laid against me with
steady eyes and steady mind ?
Ch. I know not; I see not what my masters
do : but here comes our lord forth from the house.

ΚΡ. άνδρες πολΐται, δείν επη πεπνσμενος
κατηγορεΐν μου τον τύραννον Οίδίπουν
πάρειμ άτλητών.
Tats νυν

εΐ γαρ εν ταΐς ζνμφοραΐς

515

νομίζει προς γ £μοΰ πεπονθεναι

λόγοισιν ειτ εργοισιν είς βλάβην φερον,
ούτοι

βίου μοι του μακραίωνος πόθος,

φεροντι τηνδε βάξιν.

ου yap εις απλούν

η ζημία μοι τον λόγου τούτον φέρει,
αλλ* €?

520

μεγιστον, ει κακός μεν εν πόλει,

κακός 8e προς σον και φίλων κεκλησομαι.
ΧΟ. αλλ'

ήλθε μεν δη τούτο τοϋνειδος τάχ αν

οργή βιασθεν μάλλον η γνώμη φρένων.
ΚΡ. τονπος δ' εφάνθη ταΐς εμαΐς γνώμαις ότι

525

πεισθείς ό μάντις τους λόγονς ψευδείς λεγοι;
ΧΟ.

ηνόατο μεν ταδ', οίδα δ' ου γνωμττ) τίνι.

ΚΡ. ε£ ομμάτων δ' ορθών τε κάξ όρθης φρενός
κατηγορεΐτο τον π [κλήμα τούτο μον ;
ΧΟ.

ονκ οΤδ * α γαρ όρωσ ol κρατούντες οΰχ ορώ.

530

αυτός δ' ο δ' η 8η δωμάτων εζω περα.

Enter OEDIPUS.

Oe. Sirrah, how earnest thou here ? Hast
thou a front so bold that thou hast come to my
house, who art the proved assassin of its master,—
the palpable robber of my crown ? Come, tell me,
in the name of the gods, was it cowardice or folly
that thou sawest in me, that thou didst plot to
do this thing ? Didst thou think that I would not
note this deed of thine creeping on me by stealth,
or, aware, would not ward it off? Now, is not
thine attempt foolish,—to seek, without followers
or friends, a throne,—a prize which followers and
wealth must win ?
Cr, Mark me now,—in answer to thy words,
hear a fair reply, and then judge for thyself on
knowledge.
Oe. Thou art apt in speech, but I have a poor
wit for thy lessons, since I have found thee my
malignant foe.
Cr. Now first hear how I will explain this
very thing—

ΟΙ. ούτος

συ, πώς δεν ρ* ήλθες; η τοσόν6* εχεις

τόλμης πρόσωπον ώστε τάς εμάς στεγας
ΐκου, φονευς ων τοϋδε τάνδρός εμφανώς
ληστης τ εναργής της εμης τυραννίδος;

535

φερ είπε προς θεών, δειλίαν η μωρίαν
Ιδών τιν εν μοι ταΰτ εβουλεύσω ποιεΐν;
ή τουργον ώ? ου γνωριοιμί σου τόδε
δόλω προσερπον, η ουκ άλεξοίμην μαθών;
αρ ουχί μώρόν εστι τονγχείρημά σου,

540

άνευ τε πλήθους και φίλων τυραννίδα
θηράν, ο πληθει χρήμασίν θ' άλίσκεται;
ΚΡ.

οίσθ* ως ποίησον; άντι τών είρημένων
ισ

ΟΙ.

άντάκουσον, κατα κρΐν αυτός μαθών.

λεγειν σν δεινός, μανθάνειν δ' €γω κακός
σου' δυσμενή γαρ και βαρύν σ ευρηκ εμοί.

ΚΡ. τουτ' αυτό νυν

μου πρώτ άκουσον cos ερώ.

545

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Oe. Explain me not one thing—that thou art
not false.
Cr. If thou deemest that stubbornness without
sense is a good gift, thou art not wise.
Oe. If thou deemest that thou canst wrong a
kinsman and escape the penalty, thou art not sane.
Cr. Justly said, I grant thee: but tell me what
is the wrong that thou sayest thou hast suffered
from me.
Oe. Didst thou advise, or didst thou not, that
I should send for that reverend seer ?
Cr. And now I am still of the same mind.
Oe. How long is it, then, since Lal'us—
Cr. Since Laius...? I take not thy drift...
Oe. —was swept from men's sight by a deadly
violence ?
Cr. The count of years would run far into the
past.
Oe. Was this seer, then, of the craft in those
days ?
Cr. Yea, skilled as now, and in equal honour.
Oe. Made he, then, any mention of me at that
time ?
Cr. Never, certainly, when I was within hearing.
Oe. But held ye not a search touching the
murder ?
Cr. Due search we held, of course—and learned
nothing.
Oe. And how was it that this sage did not tell
his story then ?
Cr. I know not; where I lack light, 'tis my
wont to be silent.
Oe. Thus much, at least, thou knowest, and
Λ
could'st declare with light enough.
Cr. What is that ? If I know it, I will not deny.
Oe. That, if he had not conferred with thee,
he would never have named my slaying of Laius.
Cr. If so he speaks, thou best kfiowest: but I
claim to learn from thee as much as thou hast now
from me.
Oe. Learn thy fill: I shall never be found
guilty of the blood.
Cr. Say then—thou hast married my sister ?
Oe. The question allows not of denial.
Cr. And thou rulest the land as she doth, with
like sway ?
Oe. She obtains from me all her desire.
Cr. And rank not I as a third peer of you
twain ?
Oe. Aye, 'tis just therein that thou art seen a
false friend.

IS

ΟΙ. τοντ αντο μη μοι φράζ', όπως ουκ εΐ κακός.
KP. εΐ τοι νομίζεις κτήμα την αυθαδίαν
εΐναί τι τον νου χωρίς, ουκ ορθώς φρονείς.

550

ΟΙ. 6ι τοι νομίζεις άνδρα συγγενή κακώς
δρών ούχ νφεζϊΐν την δίκην, ουκ ευ φρονείς.
ΚΡ. ζνμφημί σοι ταυτ

ενδικ

€ΐρησθαι.

το δέ

πάθημ όποιον φής παθείν δίδασκε με.
ΟΙ. επειθες, η ουκ επειθες, ως χρείη μ επί

555

τον σεμνόμαντιν άνδρα πέμψασθαί τίνα;
ΚΡ. και νυν tff αυτός είμι τώ βουλεύματα
ΟΙ. πόσον τιν ήδη δη θ* ο Λάϊος χρόνον
ΚΡ. δεδρακε ποίον έργον; ου γαρ εννοώ.
ΟΓ. άφαντος ερρει θανασίμω χειρώματι;

560

ΚΡ. μακροί παλαιοί τ αν μετρηθείεν -χρόνοι.
ΟΙ. τότ

ουν ό μάντις ούτος ην iv rrj τίγνη;

ΚΡ. σοφός γ' ομοίως κά£ ίσου τιμώμενος.
ΟΙ. εμνησατ ουν εμου τι τώ τότ εν χρονω;
ΚΡ. ουκουν εμου γ* εστώτος ονδαμον πελας.

565

ΟΙ. αλλ' ουκ ερευναν του θανόντος εσχετ€;
ΚΡ. παρεσχομεν, πώς δ' ουχί; κουκ ηκονσαμεν.
ΟΙ. 7τω5 ουν τόθ* ούτος ο σοφός ουκ Ύ]υδα τάδε;
ΚΡ. ουκ οΐδ9'

εφ* οις γαρ μη φρονώ σιγαν φιλώ.

ΟΙ. τοσονδ€ γ οΧσθα και λεγοις αν εν φρονών.

570

ΚΡ. ποιον τόδ'; εΐ γαρ οΐδά γ\ ουκ άρνησομαι.
ΟΙ. όθοννεκ, ει μη σοι ξυνήλθε, τάς εμάς
ουκ αν ποτ

είπε Λάιου διαφθορας.

ΚΡ. €ΐ μεν λ€γει τα δ', αυτός οισθ*'

εγώ δε σου

μαθείν δικαιώ τανθ' άπερ κάμον συ νυν.
ΟΙ. Ικμάνθαν '

575

ου γαρ δη φονενς άλώσομαι.

ΚΡ. τι δητ ; αδελφήν την εμην γη μας έχεις;
ΟΙ. άρνησις ουκ ενεστιν ών ανιστορείς.
ΚΡ. άρχεις δ* εκείνη ταύτα γης, ισον νεμων;
ΟΙ. αν # θελουσα παντ εμου κομίζεται.
ΚΡ. ουκουν ισούμαι σφών εγώ δυοιν τρίτος;
ΟΙ. ενταύθα γαρ δη και κακός φαίνει φίλος.

580

16

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Cr. Not so, if thou woulcTst reason with thine
own heart as I with mine, And first weigh this,—
whether thou thinkest that any one would choose
to rule amid terrors rather than in unruffled peace,
—granting that he is to have the same powers.
Now I, for one, have no yearning in my nature
to be a king rather than to do kingly deeds,—no,
nor hath any man who knows how to keep a
sober mind. For now I win all boons from thee
without fear; but, were I ruler myself, I should be
doing much e'en against mine own pleasure.
How, then, could royalty be sweeter for me to
have than painless rule and influence ? Not yet
am I so misguided as to desire other honours than
those which profit. Now, all wish me joy; now,
every man has a greeting for me; now, those who
have a suit to thee crave speech with me, since
therein is all their hope of success. Then why
should I resign these things, and take those? No
mind will become false, while it is wise. Nay, I
am no lover of such policy, and, if another put
it into deed, never could I bear to act with him.
And, in proof of this, first, go to Pytho, and ask
if I brought thee true word of the oracle; then
next, if thou find that I have planned alight in
concert with the soothsayer, take and slay me, by
the sentence not of one mouth, but of twain—by
mine own, no less than thine. But make me not
guilty in a corner, on unproved surmise. It is not
right to adjudge bad men good at random, or good
men bad. I count it a like thing for a man to cast
off a true friend as to cast away the life in his own
bosom, which most he loves. Nay, thou wilt learn
these things with sureness in time, for time alone
shows a just man; but thou could'st discern a knave
even in one day.
Ch. Well hath he spoken, Ο king, for one who
giveth heed not to fall: the quick in counsel are
not sure. "
Oe. When the stealthy plotter is moving on me
in quick sort, I, too, must be quick with my counter­
plot. If I await him in repose, his ends will have
been gained, and mine missed.
Cr. What would'st thou, then ? Cast me out
of the land ?
Oe. Not so: I desire thy death—not thy
banishment—that thou mayest show forth what
manner of thing is envy.
Cr. Thou speakest as resolved not to yield or
to believe ?
[Oe. No; for thou persuadest me not that thou art worthy of belief.]

KP. ουκ,

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σκεψαι δε τούτο πρώτον, ει τιν άν δοκεΐς
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ελεσθαι ζνν φόβοισι μάλλον η

585

άτρεστον ενδοντ, ει τά γ' αυθ' ε£ει κράτη.
εγώ μεν ονν οντ αυτό ς Χαίρων εφυν
τιφαννος είναι μάλλον η τνραννα δράν,
οντ άλλος

όστις

σωφρόνων επίσταται.

νυν μεν yap εκ σον πάντ άνευ φόβου φέρω,
εΐ

δ*

590

αυτός ηρχον, πολλά καν άκων εδρων.

πώς Βητ εμοι τυραννις ηδίων εχειν
άρχης άλυπου και δυναστείας εφυ ;
ουπω τοσούτον ή πατημένο ς κυρώ
ώστ

αλλα

χρηζειν η τά συν κερδει καλά.

595

νυν πάσι χαίρω, νυν με πάς άσπάζεται,
νυν οί σεθεν χρηζοντες εκκαλουσί μ€'
το yap τνχάν αντοισι πάν έντανθ' evi.
πώς Βητ

€γώ κείν αν λάβοιμ άφείς τάδε;

ουκ αν γένοιτο

νους

κακός καλώς φρονών.

600

οϋτ εραστής τησΒε της γνώμης Ζφυν

αλλ'

ουτ άν μετ άλλον δρώντος αν τλαίην ποτί.

και τώνδ'

ελεγχον τούτο μεν

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πευθου τά χρησθεντ, εϊ σαφώς ηγγειλά σοι·

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εάν με

τω

τερασκόπω λάβης

605

κοινή τι βουλευσαντα, μη μ* απλή 'κτάνης

δΐ7τλ$ δε, ττ} τ'
δ' άδηλω μη με

ι/τηφω,
γνώμη

εμβ και err}, λαβών.
χωρίς αΐτιώ.

ου γαρ δίκαιον οντε τους κακούς μάτην
χρηστούς νομίζειν οϋτε τους χρηστούς κακούς.

610

φίλον yap εσθλον εκβαλεΐν ίσον λίγω

και τον
αλλ' εν

παρ αύτω βίοτον, ο ν πλείστον φιλεΐ.
χρονω γνώσει τάδ άσφαλώς, επει

χρόνος δίκαιον άνδρα δεικνυσιν μόνος,
κακόν δε καν εν ήμερα γνοίης μια.

ΧΟ. καλώς
άναζ'
ΟΙ. όταν

615

ελε£εν εΰλαβουμενω πεσεΐν,
φρονειν

ταχύς τις

γαρ οι τα^€ΐς ουκ

άσφαλεΐς.

ούπιβουλεύων λάθρα

χωρη, ταχυν δει κάμε βουλευειν πάλιν.
ει

δ'

ησυχάζων προσμενώ,

π επpay μεν εσται, τάμά

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δ'

τά τούδε

μίν

620

ημαρτημενα.

δητα χρήζεις; η με γης εξω βαλεΐν;

ΟΙ. ηκιστα' θνησκειν ου φυγείν σε βούλομαι
ώς άν προδεί£ης οΐόν εστι

το

φθόνεΐν.

ΚΡ. ώς

ου χ νπείζων ούδε πιστευσων λεγεις;

ΟΙ,

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*

*

*

*

*

625

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Cr. No, for I find thee not sane. Oe. Sane,
at least, in mine own interest
Cr. Nay, thou should'st be so in mine also.
Oe. Nay, thou art false.
Cr. But if thou understandest nought ? Oe. Yet
must I rule.
Cr. Not if thou rule ill. Oe. Hear him, Ο
Thebes !
Cr. Thebes is for me also—not for thee alone.

KP. ου γαρ φρονούντα σ

17
ευ βλέπω.

ΚΡ. αλλ' εξ ισον δει κάμόν.
KP. εΐ δέ ζυνίης μηδέν;

ΟΙ. το γοΰν εμόν,

ΟΙ. αλλ* εφυς κακός.
ΟΙ. άρκτέον y όμως.

ΚΡ. ούτοι κακώς y άρχοντος.

ΟΙ. ώ πόλις ιτόλις.

630

ΚΡ. κάμοϊ πόλεως μέτεστιν, ονχι σοι μόνω.

Enter IOCASTA, attended.
Ch. Cease, princes; and in good time for you
I see Iocasta coming yonder from the house,
with whose help ye should compose your present
feud.
Iocasta. Misguided men, why have ye raised
such foolish strife of tongues ? Are ye not ashamed,
while the land is thus sick, to stir up troubles of
your own ? Come, go thou into the house,—and
thou, Creon, to thy home,—and forbear to make
much of a petty grief.
Cr. Kinswoman, Oedipus thy lord claims to do
dread things unto me, even one or other of two
ills,—to thrust me from the land of my fathers, or
to slay me amain.
Oe. Yea; for I have caught him working evil,
by ill arts, against my person.
Cr. Now may I see no good, but perish ac­
cursed, if I have done aught to thee of that where­
with thou chargest me ?
lo. O, for the gods1 love, believe it, Oedipus—
first, for the awful sake of this oath unto the gods,
—then for my sake and for theirs who stand before
thee!
Ch. Consent, reflect, hearken, Ο my king, I
pray thee!
Oe. What grace, then, wouldest thou have me
grant thee ?
Ch. Respect him who aforetime was not foolish,
and who now is strong in his oath.
Oe. Now dost thou know what thou cravest ?
Ch. Yea.
Oe. Declare, then, what thou meanest.
Ch. That thou shouldest never use an un­
proved rumour to cast a dishonouring charge on
the friend who has bound himself with a curse.
Oe. Then be very sure that, when thou seekest
this, for me thou art seeking destruction, or exile
from this land.
Ch. No, by him who stands in the front of all
the heavenly host, no, by the Sun! Unblest, un-

XO. 7τανσασθ\ ανακτάς' καιρίαν δ* ύμΐν ορώ
τηνδ* εκ δόμων στοιχούσαν Ίοκάστην, μεθ' ης
το νυν π αρεστός νεΐκος ευ θέσθαι χρεών.
ΙΟ. τι την άβουλον, ώ ταλαίπωροι, στάσιν

635

γλωσσάς εττηρασθ*; ουδ* επαισχννεσθε, γης
ούτω νοσ ούσης, ίδια κινουντες κακά;
ουκ ει συ τ οίκους συ τε, Κρέον, κατά στέγας,
και μη το μηδέν άλγος είς μέγ' οϊσετε;
ΚΡ. όμαιμε, δείνα μ ΟΙδίπους ό σος πόσis
δνοΐν δίκαιοι δραν άποκρίνας κακοιν,

610

η γης άπώσαι πατρίδος, η κτείναι λαβών.
ΟΙ. ξνμφημι' δρώντα γαρ νιν, ω γνναι, κακώς
εΐληφα τουμόν σώμα συν τέχνη κακη.
ΚΡ. μη νυν όναίμην, αλλ' αραιός, ci σί τι

645

δεδρακ, όλοίμην, ων ετταιτια με δραν.
ΙΟ. ώ προς θεών πίστενσον, ΟΙδίπους, τάδε,
μάλιστα μεν τόνδ' ορκον αίδεσθεις θεών,
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κάμε τονσδε θ* οι πάρεισί σοι.

ΧΟ. πίθου θελησας φρονησας τ', ανα£, λίσσομαι. [στρ. α. 649
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ΧΟ. τον οντε πριν νηπιον νυν τ εν ορκω μέγαν καταίδεσαι.
ΟΙ. οισθ* ουν α χρήζεις;

ΧΟ. οιβα.

ΟΙ. φράζε δη τι φης.

ΧΟ. τον εναγή φίλον μηποτ εν αιτία

656

συν άφανεΐ λόγω σ άτιμον βαλεΐν,
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ζητών όλεθρον η φυγην εκ τησδε γης.
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660

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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

friended, may I die by the uttermost doom, if I
have that thought! But my unhappy soul is worn
by the withering of the land, and again by the
thought that our old sorrows should be crowned
by sorrows springing from you twain.
Oe. Then let him go, though I am surely doomed
to death, or to be thrust dishonoured from the
land. Thy lips, not his, move my compassion by
their plaint; but he, where'er he be, shall be hated.
Cr. Sullen in yielding art thou seen, even as
vehement in the excesses of thy wrath; but such
natures are justly sorest for themselves to bear.
Oe. Then wilt thou not leave me in peace, and
get thee gone ?
Cr. I will go my way; I have found thee undiscerning, but in the sight of these I am just.
Exit CREON.
Ch. Lady, why dost thou delay to take yon
man into the house ?
Ιο. I will do so, when I have learned what hath
chanced.
Ch. Blind suspicion, bred of talk, arose; and,
on the other part, injustice wounds.
Io. It was on both sides ?
Ch. Aye.
Io. And what was the story ?
Ch. Enough, methinks, enough—when our land
is already vexed—that the matter should rest where
it ceased. Oe. Seest thou to what thou hast come, for all
thy honest purpose, in seeking to slack and blunt
my zeal ?
Ch. King, I have said it not once alone—be
sure that I should have been shown a madman,
bankrupt in sane counsel, if I put thee away—
thee, who gavest a true course to my beloved
country when distraught by troubles—thee, who
now also art like to prove our prospering
guide.
Io. In the name of the gods, tell me also, Ο
king, on what account thou hast conceived this
steadfast wrath.
Oe. That will I; for I honour thee, lady, above
yonder men:—the cause is Creon, and the plots
that he hath laid against me.
Io. Speak on—if thou canst tell clearly how
the feud began.
Oe. He says that I stand guilty of the blood
of La'ius.
Io.. As on his own knowledge ? Or on hearsay
from another ?

όλοίμαν, φρόνησιν ει τάνδ' εχω.
άλλα μοι δυσμόρω γα φθίνουσα

665

τρνχεί ψνχάν, τά & ει κακοις κακά
προσάψα τοις πάλαι τα προς σφων.
ΟΙ. ο δ' ουν ΐτω, κεI χρη με παντελώς θανεΐν,
η γης άτιμον τησδ' άπωσθήναι βία.

669
670

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αυταΐς δικαίως είσΐν άλγισται φερειν.
ΟΙ. οΰκουν μ εάσεις κάκτος ει;

675

ΚΡ. πορενσομαι,

σου μεν τυχών άγνώτος, εν δε τοΐσδ' ίσος.

Exit CREON.
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ΙΟ. μαθουσά γ ήτις η τύχη.

680

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685

φαίνεται ενθ* εληζεν, αντον μένειν.
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[αντ. β/.

689

ισθι δε παραφρόνιμον, άπορον επι φρόνιμα
πεφάνθαι μ σν, ει σ ενοσφιζόμαν,
ος τ εμάν γαν φίλαν εν πόνοισιν
άλυουσαν κατ ορθόν ονρισας,

695

τανυν τ ευπομπος αν γενοιο.
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μηνιν τοσηνδε πράγματος στησας Ζχεις.
ΟΙ. ερώ· σε γάρ τώνδ' ες πλέον, γυναι, σεβω·
Κρέοντος, οιά μοι βεβουλευκώς εχει.
ΙΟ. λεγ, εΐ σαφώς το νείκος εγκαλών ερεΐς.
ΟΙ. φονεα με φησι Λαίου καθεστάναι.
ΙΟ. αΰτος ξυνειδως, η μαθών άλλου πάρα;

700

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Oe. Nay, he hath made a rascal seer his mouth­ ΟΙ. μάντιν μεν συν κακονργον είσπέμψας, επει
το γ €19 εαυτόν πάν ελενθεροΐ στόμα.
piece; as for himself, he keeps his lips wholly pure.
Io. Then absolve thyself of the things whereof 10. σν νυν άφεις σεαντόν ων λέγεις πέρι
thou speakest; hearken to me; and learn for thy
εμου 'πάκονσον, καϊ μάθ* ου ν εκ εστί σοι
comfort that nought of mortal birth is a sharer in
βρότειον ουδέν μαντικής εχον τέχνης.
the science of the seer. I will give thee pithy proof
φανώ δε σοι σημεία τώνδε σύντομα.
of that.
χρησμός yap ήλθε Λα'ι'ω ποτ, ονκ ερώ
An oracle came to La'ius once—I will not say
from Phoebus himself, but from his ministers—that
Φοίβου y απ αντον, των δ' νπηρετών άπο,
the doom should overtake him to die by the hand
ως αντον ήζοι μοίρα προς παιδός θανεΐν,
of his child, who should spring from him and me.
όστις γένοιτ Ιμον τε κάκείνον πάρα.
Now La'ius,—as, at least, the rumour saith,—
και τον μέν, ωσπερ y ή φάτις, ξένοι ποτέ
was murdered one day by foreign robbers at a
λτ)σταΙ φονεύουσ iv τριπλαΐς άμαζιτοΐς'
place where three highways meet. And the child's
παιδος δε βλάστας σι διέσχον ήμέραι
birth was not three days past, when La'ius pinned
its ankles together, and had it thrown, by others'
τρ€ΐς, και νιν άρθρα κείνος ίνζευζας ποδοΐν
hands, on a trackless mountain.
eppaj/ev άλλων χερσιν εις άβατον ορος.
So, in that case, Apollo brought it not to pass
κάντανθ* 'Απόλλων οϋτ εκείνον ήννσεν
that the babe should become the slayer of his sire,
φονεα yev^Oai πατρός, οντε Αάϊον,
or that La'ius should die—the dread thing which
το δεινόν ουφοβεΐτο, προς παιδος θανειν.
he feared—by his child's hand. Thus did the
messages of seer-craft map out the future. Regard
τοιαύτα φήμαι μαντικοί διώρισαν,
them, thou, not at all. Whatsoever needful things
ων εντρεπον συ μηδέν ων γαρ αν θεός
the god seeks, he himself will easily bring to
χρείαν ερευνα ραδίως αυτός φανεί.
light.
Oe. What restlessness of soul, lady, what tumult 01. οΐόν μ άκονσαντ άρτίως εχει, γυναι,
of the mind hath just come upon me since I heard
ψυχής πλάνημα κάνακίνησις φρενών.
thee speak!
Io. What anxiety hath startled thee, that thou ΙΟ. ποίας μερίμνης τονθ' υποστραφεϊς λέγεις;
sayest this ?
Oe. Methought I heard this from thee,—that 01. εδο£ άκονσαι σον τοδ', ως ο Αάϊος
La'ius was slain where three highways meet.
κατασφαγείη προς τριπλαΐς άμαξιτοις.
Io. Yea, that was the story; nor hath it ceased 10. ηνδατο γαρ ταντ, ουδέ πω ληζαντ εχει.
yet
01. και που 'σθ* ο χώρος ούτος ον τόδ' ην πάθος;
Oe. And where is the place where this befell ?
Io. The land is called Phocis; and branching 10. Φωκις μεν η γη κλγίζεται, σχιστή δ' οδός
roads lead to the same spot from Delphi and from
€ς ταύτο Δελφών κάπο Δαυλίας άγει.
Daulia.
Oe. And what is the time that hath passed 01. και τίς χρόνος τοΐσδ' εστίν ονξεληλνθως;
since these things were ?
Io. The news was published to the town shortly 10. σχεδόν τι πρόσθεν η συ τησδ' εχων χθονός
αρχήν εφαίνου τοντ εκηρνχθη πόλει.
before thou wert first seen in power over this land.
Oe. Ο Zeus, what hast thou decreed to do unto 01. ώ Ζεν, τί μον δράσαι βεβονλευσαι πέρι;
me ?
Io. And wherefore, Oedipus, doth this thing 10. τί δ' εστί σοι τοντ, ΟΙδίπονς, ενθνμιον;
weigh upon thy soul ?
Oe. Ask me not yet; but say what was the 0L μήπω μ' ερώτα· τον δε Αάϊον φνσιν
τίν είχε φράζε, τίνος άκμήν ήβης εχων.
stature of Laius, and how ripe his manhood.
Io. He was tall,—the silver just lightly strewn 10. μέγας, χνοάζων άρτι λευκανθες κάρα,
among his hair; and his form was not greatly un­
μορφής δε της σής ονκ άπεστάτει πολν.
like to thine.

20

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Oe. Unhappy that I am! Methinks I have been
laying myself even now under a dread curse, and
knew it not.
Io. How sayest thou? I tremble when I look
on thee, my king.
Oe. Dread misgivings have I that the seer can
see. But thou wilt show better if thou wilt tell me
one thing more.
Iο. Indeed I tremble, but will answer all thou
askest, when I hear it.
Oe. Went he in small force, or with many armed
followers, like a chieftain ?
Io. Five they were in all,—a herald one of them;
and there was one carriage, which bore La'ius.
Oe. Alas! Tis now clear indeed.—Who was
he who gave you these tidings, lady ?
Io. A servant—the sole survivor who came
home.
Oe. Is he haply at hand in the house now ?
Io. No, truly; so soon as he came thence, and
found thee reigning in the stead of La'ius, he sup­
plicated me, with hand laid on mine, that I would
send him to the fields, to the pastures of the flocks,
that he might be far from the sight of this town.
And I sent him; he was worthy, for a slave, to win
e'en a larger boon than that.
Oe. Would, then, that he could return to us
without delay!
Io. It is easy: but wherefore dost thou enjoin
this ?
Oe. I fear, lady, that mine own lips have
been unguarded; and therefore am I fain to
behold him.
Io. Nay, he shall come. But I too, methinks,
have a claim to learn what lies heavy on thy heart,
my king.
Oe. Yea, and it shall not be kept from thee,
now that my forebodings have advanced so far.
Who, indeed, is more to me than thou, to whom I
should speak in passing through such a fortune as
this ?
My father was Polybus of Corinth,—my mother,
the Dorian Merop£: and I was held the first of all
the folk in that town, until a chance befell me,
worthy, indeed, of wonder, though not worthy of
mine own heat concerning it. At a banquet, a man
full of wine cast it at me in his cups that I was
not the true son of my sire. .And I, vexed, re­
strained myself for that day as best I might; but
on the next I went to my mother and father, and
questioned them; and they were wroth for the

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εμοι πατήρ μεν Τίόλνβος ήν Κορίνθιος,
μήτηρ δέ Μερόπη Δωρίς.

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αστών μέγιστος των εκεί, πρίν μοι τύχη
τοιάδ* επέστη, θαυμάσαι μεν άξια,
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άνηρ γαρ εν δείπνοις μ ύπερπλησθεϊς μέθη
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μητρός πατρός τ ήλεγχον οι δε δυσφόρως

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
taunt with him who had let that word fly. So on
their part I had comfort; yet was this thing ever
rankling in my heart; for it still crept abroad with
strong rumour. And, unknown to mother or father,
I went to Delphi; and Phoebus sent me forth
disappointed of that knowledge for which I came,
but in response set forth other things, full of sor­
row and terror and woe; even that I was fated to
defile my mother's bed; and that I should show
unto men a brood which they could not endure to
behold; and that I should be the slayer of the sire
who begat me.
And I, when I had listened to this, turned to
flight from the land of Corinth, thenceforth wotting
of its region by the stars alone, to some spot where
I should never see fulfilment of the infamies fore­
told in mine evil doom. And on my way I came
to the regions in which thou sayest that this prince
perished. Now, lady, I will tell thee the truth.
When in my journey I was near to those three
roads, there met me a herald, and a man seated in
a carriage drawn by colts, as thou hast described ;
and he who was in front, and the old man himself,
were for thrusting me rudely from the path. Then,
in anger, I struck him who pushed me aside—the
driver; and the old man, seeing it, watched the
moment when I was passing, and, from the carriage,
brought his goad with two teeth down full upon
my head. Yet was he paid with interest; by one
swift blow from the staff in this hand he was rolled
right out of the carriage, on his back; and I slew
every man of them.
But if this stranger had any tie of kinship with
La'ius, who is now more wretched than the man
before thee ? What mortal could prove more hated
of heaven ? Whom no stranger, no citizen, is
allowed to receive in his house; whom it is un­
lawful that any one accost; whom all must repel
from their homes ! And this—this curse—was laid
on me by no mouth but mine own ! And I pollute
the bed of the slain man with the hands by which
he perished. Say, am I vile ? Oh, am I not utter­
ly unclean ?—when I must be banished, and in
banishment see not mine own people, nor set foot
in mine own land, or else be joined in wedlock to
my mother, and slay my sire, even Polybus, who
begat and reared me.
Then would not he speak aright of Oedipus,
who judged these things sent by some cruel power
above man? Forbid, forbid, ye pure and awful
gods, that I should see that day! No, may I be

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OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

swept from among men, ere I behold myself visited
with the brand of such a doom.
Ch. To us, indeed, these things, Ο king, are
fraught with fear; yet have hope, until at least
thou hast gained full knowlege from him who saw
the deed.
Oe. Hope, in truth, rests with me thus far
alone; I can await the man summoned from the
pastures.
Io. And when he has appeared—what would'st
thou have of him ?
Oe. I will tell thee. If his story be found to
tally with thine, I, at least, shall stand clear of
disaster.
Io. And what of special note did'st thou hear
from me ?
Oe. Thou wert saying that he spoke of Laius
as slain by robbers. If, then, he still speaks, as
before, of several, I was not the slayer: a solitary
man could not be held the same with that band.
But if he names one lonely wayfarer, then beyond
doubt this guilt leans to me.
Io. Nay, be assured that thus, at least, the tale
was first told; he cannot revoke that, for the city
heard it, not I alone. But even if he should diverge
somewhat from his former story, never, king, can
he show that the murder of Laius, at least, is truly
square to prophecy; of whom Loxias plainly said
that he must die by the hand of my child. Howbeit that poor innocent never slew him, but perished
first itself. So henceforth, for what touches divi­
nation, I would not look to my right hand or my
left.
Oe. Thou judgest well. But nevertheless send
some one to fetch the peasant, and neglect not
this matter.
Io. I will send without delay. But let us come
into the house: nothing will I do save at thy good
pleasure.

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γάρ αν πράζαιμ άν ών ου σοι φίλον.

OEDIPUS and IOCASTA enter the Palace.

Ch. May destiny still find me winning the
praise of reverent purity in all words and deeds
sanctioned by those laws of range sublime, called
into life throughout the high clear heaven, whose
father is Olympus alone; their parent was no
race of mortal men, nor shall oblivion ever lay
them to sleep; a mighty god is in them, and he
grows not old.

XO. ει μοι ξννείη φεροντι
μοΐρα τάν ευσεπτον άγνείαν λόγων
έργων τε πάντων, ών νόμοι πρόκεινται
υψίποδες, ονρανίαν
δι αιθέρα τεκνωθεντες, ών *Ολυμπος
πατήρ μόνος, ουδε νιν
θνατά φύσις άνερων
ετικτεν, ουδε μη ποτέ λάθα κατακοιμάσΥ)'
μέγας εν τούτοις θεός, ουδε γηράσκει.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Insolence breeds the tyrant; Insolence, once
vainly surfeited on wealth that is not meet nor
good, when it hath scaled the topmost ram­
parts, leaps to a dread doom, where no service of
the feet can serve. But I pray that the god never
quell such rivalry as benefits the State; the god
will I ever hold for our protector.

ύβρις φυτεύει τύραννον
\αντ. a,
ύβρις, ει πολλών νπερπλησθτ] ματ αν,
α μη 'πίκαιρα μηδε συμφέροντα,
ακρότατα γεΐσ άναβασ
άποτμοτάταν ωρονσεν ets αν ayκαν,
ενθ' ου πόδι χρησίμω
χρήται. το καλώς δ' έχον
πόλει πάλαισμα μηττοτε λυσαι θεον αΐτονμαι.
θεόν ου λήξω ποτέ προστάταν ΐσχων.

But if any man walks haughtily in deed or
word, with no fear of Justice, no reverence for the
images of gods, may an evil fate seize him for his illstarred pride,—if he will not win his vantage fairly,
nor keep him from unholy deeds, but must lay
profaning hands on sanctities.
Where such things are, what mortal shall boast
any more that he can ward the arrows of the gods
from his life ? Nay, if such deeds are in honour,
wherefore should we join in the sacred dance?

ει δέ τις νπεροπτα χερσιν η λόγω πορεύεται, [στρ. β*.
Δίκας άφόβητος, ουδέ
δαιμόνων έδη σεβων,
κακά νιν ελοιτο μοίρα,
δνσπότμου χάριν χλιδας,
ει μη το κέρδος κερδανει δικαίως
και των άσεπτων ερζεται,
rj των άθικτων θίζεται ματάζων,
τις ετι ποτ εν τοισδ' άνηρ θεων βέλη
ενξεται ψυχάς άμννειν;
ει yap αί τοιαίδε πράξεις τίμιαι,
τι δει με χόρευειν;

No more will I go reverently to earth's central
and inviolate shrine, no more to Abae's temple or
Olympia, if these oracles fit not the issue, so that
all men shall point at them with the finger. Nay,
king,—if thou art rightly called,—Zeus all-ruling,
may it not escape thee and thine ever-deathless
power!
The old prophecies concerning La'ius are fading;
already men are setting them at nought, and no­
where is Apollo glorified with honours; the worship
of the gods is perishing.

οΰκετι τον άθικτον εΤμι γάς επ ομφαλόν σεβων, [άντ.
ονδ' ες τον Άβαΐσι ναόν,
ουδε τάν Όλυμπίαν,
εΐ μη τάδε χειρόδεικτα
πασιν αρμόσει βροτοΐς.
αλλ*, ω κρατννων, ειπερ opff άκουεις,
Ζευ, πάντ άνάσσων, μη λάθοι
σε τάν τε σαν ο θάνατον αιεν άρχάν.
φθίνοντα yap Λαίου παλαίφατα
θέσφατ εξαιρουσιν ηδη,
κουδαμου τιμαΐς *Απόλλων εμφανής·
ερρει δε τα θεια.

End of ACT II.

24

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

ACT III.
The scene is the same as for ACTS I. and II.
Enter IOCASTA, attended\ bearing offerings for the altar of the household gods.

Io. Princes of the land, the thought has come ΙΟ. χωράς άνακτες, δό£α μοι παρεστάθη .
to me to visit the shrines of the gods, with this
να ους ικεσθαι δαιμόνων, τάδ* iv χεροΐν
wreathed branch in my hands, and these gifts of
στεφη λαβονστ] κάπιθυμιάματα.
incense. For Oedipus excites his soul overmuch
νψον γαρ αίρει θνμόν Ο Ιδίπους άγαν
with all manner of alarms, nor, like a man of sense,
λύπαισι παντοίαισιν ουδ* όποι* άνηρ
judges the new things by the old, but is at the will
εννους τά καινά τοις πάλαι τεκμαίρεται,
of the speaker, if he speak terrors.
αλλ' εστί τον λέγοντος, ην φόβους λέγη.
Since, then, by counsel I can do no good, to
οτ ουν παραινουσ ουδέν ες πλέον ποιω,
thee, Lycean Apollo, for thou art nearest, I have
προς σ\ ω Λνκει "Απολλον, άγχιστος γαρ εΐ,
come, a suppliant with these symbols of prayer,
Ικετις άφΐγμαι τοΐσδε συν κατευγμασιν,
that thou mayest find us some riddance from unόπως λνσιν τιν ημιν εναγή πόρτ)ς·
cleanness. For now we are all afraid, seeing him
affrighted,—even as they who see fear in the helms­
ω? νυν όκνουμεν πάντες εκπεπληγμένον
man of their ship.
κεΐνον βλέποντες ως κυβερνητην νεώς.
Enter a MESSENGER from Corinth.

Me. Might I learn from you, strangers, where
is the house of the king Oedipus? Or, better still,
tell me where he himself is—if ye know.
Ch. This is his dwelling, and he himself, stran­
ger, is within; and this lady is the mother of his
children.
Me. Then may she be ever happy in a happy
, home, since she is his heaven-blest queen.
Io. Happiness to thee also, stranger! 'tis the
due of thy fair greeting.—But say what thou hast
come to seek or to tell.
Me. Good tidings, lady, for thy house and for
thy husband.
Io. What are they? And from whom hast
thou come ?
Me. From Corinth: and at the message which
I will speak anon thou wilt rejoice—doubtless; yet
haply grieve.
Io. And what is it ? How hath it thus a double
potency ?
Me. The people will make him king of the
Isthmian land, as 'twas said there.
Io. How then ? Is the aged Polybus no more
in power ?
Me. No, verily: for death holds him in the
tomb.
Io. How sayest thou ? Is Polybus dead,old man ?
Me. If I speak not the truth, I am content
to die.

ΑΓ. αρ αν παρ υμων, ώ ξένοι, μάθοιμ όπου
τά του τυράννου δώματ εστίν ΟΙδίπου;
μάλιστα δ' αυτόν είπατ, εΐ κάτισθ* οπου.
ΧΟ. στεγαι μεν αιδε, καυτός ένδον, ω ξενε·
γυνή δε μητηρ ηδε των κείνου τέκνων.

ΑΓ. αλλ' ολβία τ ε και £υν όλβίοις άει
γενοιτ, εκείνου γ* ουσα παντελής δάμαρ.

ΙΟ. αϋτως δε και συ γ', ω ζεν' άζιος γαρ εΐ
της ευεπείας ουνεκ · αλλά φράζ* ότου
χρτ]ζων άφΐξαι χω τι σημηναι θελων.

ΑΓ. αγαθά, δόμοις τ ε και ποσει τω σω, γυναι.
10. τά ποια ταύτα; παρά τίνος δ' άφιγμένος;
ΑΓ. εκ της Κορίνθου, το δ' επος ουξερώ τάχα,
ηδοιο μεν, πως δ* ουκ αν; άσχάλλοις δ' ίσως.
10. τί

δ' εστι; ποίαν δύναμιν ώδ' εχει διπλην;

ΑΓ. τύραννον αυτόν ουπιχώριοι χθονός
της Ίσθμίας στησουσιν, ώς ηυδάτ εκεί.
10. τί

δ'; ονχ ό πρεσβυς ΤΙόλυβος εγκρατής ετι;

ΑΓ. ου δητ, επεί νιν θάνατος iv τάφοις Ζχει.
ΙΟ. ττώ? εΐπας; η τεθνηκε ΊΙόλυβος, ω γερον;
ΑΓ. εί μη λεγω τάληθες, άξιω θανεΐν.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Ιο. Ο handmaid, away with all speed, and tell
this to thy master! Ο ye oracles of the gods,
where stand ye now! This is the man whom
Oedipus long feared and shunned, lest he should
slay him; and now this man hath died in the course
of destiny, not by his hand.
Enter (

ΙΟ. ώ πρόσπολ9, ουχι δεσπότη τάδ# ως τάχος
μολονσα λέξεις; ώ θεών μαντευματα,
ΐν εστε' τούτον Οιδίπους πάλαι τρέμων
τον άνδρ9 εφενγε μη κτάνοι, και νυν όδε
προς της τύχης δλωλεν ουδε τουδ' υπο.

EDIPUS.

Oe. Iocasta, dearest wife, why hast thou sum­ ΟΙ. ω φίλτατον γυναικός 9Ιοκάστης κάρα,
τι μ εξεπεμψω δεν ρο τώνδε δωμάτων;
moned me forth from these doors?
Io. Hear this man, and judge, as thou listenest, ΙΟ. άκουε τάνδρός τούδε, και σκόπει κλύων
τα σεμν ΐν9 ηκει του θεου μαντευματα.
to what the awful oracles of the gods have come.
Oe. And he—who may he be, and what news ΟΙ. ούτος δε τις ποτ εστι και τι μοι λεγει;
hath he for me ?
Io. He is from Corinth, to tell that thy father ΙΟ. εκ της Κορίνθου, πατέρα τον σον αγγέλων
Polybus lives no longer, but hath perished.
ώς ουκετ οντα Πόλυβον, αλλ' ολωλότα.
Oe. How, stranger? Let me have it from ΟΙ. τι φης, ζεν ; αυτός μοι συ σημάντωρ γενου.
thine own mouth.
Me. If I must first make these tidings plain, ΑΓ. ει τούτο πρώτον δει μ* άπαγγειλαι σαφώς,
ευ ΐσθ* εκείνον θανάσιμον βεβηκότα.
know indeed that he is dead and gone.
ΟΙ. πότερα δόλοισιν, η νόσου ξυναλλαγη;
Oe. By treachery,—or by visit of disease ?
Me. A light thing in the scale brings the aged ΑΓ. σμικρά παλαιά σώματ εννάζει ροπη.
to their rest.
Oe. Ah, he died, it seems, of sickness ?
ΟΙ. νόσοις ό τλημων, ώς εοικεν, εφθιτο.
Me. Yea, and of the long years that he had ΑΓ. και τω μακρώ γ ε συμμέτρου μένος χρόνω.
told.
Oe. Alas, alas! Why, indeed, my wife, should ΟΙ. φευ φευ, τι δη τ αν, ώ γυναι, σκοποΐτό τις
one look to the hearth of the Pythian seer, or to
την Ιίυθόμαντιν εστίαν, η τους άνω
the birds that scream above our heads, on whose
κλάζοντας όρνις, ων υφηγητών εγώ
showing I was doomed to slay my sire? But he is
κτενεΐν εμελλον πατέρα τον εμόν; ο δε θανών
dead, and hid already beneath the earth; and here
κευθει κάτω δη γης* εγω δ' οδ' ενθάδε
am I, who have not put hand to spear.—Unless,
perchance, he was killed by longing for me: thus,
άψαυστος εγχους' ει τι μη τώμω πόθω
indeed, I should be the cause of his death. But
κατεφθιθ*' ουτω δ' αν θανών ειη 'Ί; εμου.
the oracles as they stand, at least, Polybus hath
τά δ9 ουν παρόντα συλλαβών θεσπίσματα
swept with him to his rest in Hades: they are worth
κείται παρ9 "Αιδτ) ΤΙόλυβος άξι ουδενός.
nought.
Io. Nay, did I not so foretell to thee long ΙΟ. οϋκουν εγώ σοι ταύτα προϋλεγον πάλαι;
since ?
Oe. Thou did'st: but I was misled by my fear. ΟΙ. ηνδας' εγώ δε τω φόβω παρηγόμην.
Io. Now no more lay aught of those things to ΙΟ. μη νυν ετ αυτών μηδέν ες θυμον βάλης.
heart.
Oe. But surely I must needs fear my mother's ΟΙ. και πώς τό μητρός λεκτρον ουκ όκνεΐν με δει;
bed?
Io. Nay, what should mortal fear, for whom ΙΟ. τι δ' άν φοβοΐτ άνθρωπος, ω τά της τύχης
the decrees of Fortune are supreme, and who hath
κρατεί, πρόνοια δ* εστίν οΰδενός σαφής;
clear foresight of nothing? 'Tis best to live at
είκη κράτιστον ζην, οπως δύναιτό τις.
random, as one may. But fear not thou touching
συ δ9 εις τά μητρός μη φοβου νυμφεύματα*
πολλοί γαρ ηδη καν όνείρασίν βροτών
wedlock with thy mother. Many men ere now

26

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

have so fared in dreams also: but he to whom these
things are as nought bears his life most easily.
Oe. All these bold words of thine would have
been well, were not my mother living; but as it is,
since she lives, I must needs fear—though thou
sayest well.
Io. Howbeit thy father's death is a great sign
to cheer us.
Oe. Great, I know; but my fear is of her who
lives.
Me. And who is the woman about whom ye
fear ?
Oe. Merop6, old man, the consort of Polybus.
Me. And what is it in her that moves your
fear?
Oe. A heaven-sent oracle of dread import,
stranger.
Me. Lawful, or unlawful, for another to know?
Oe. Lawful, surely. Loxias once said that I
was doomed to espouse mine own mother, and to
shed with mine own hands my father's blood.
Wherefore my home in Corinth was long kept by
me afar; with happy event, indeed,—yet still 'tis
sweet to see the face of parents.
Me. Was it indeed for fear of this that thou
wast an exile from that city ?
Oe. And because I wished not, old man, to be
the slayer of my sire.
Me. Then why did I not free thee, king, from
this fear, seeing that I came with friendly purpose?
Oe. Indeed thou should'st have guerdon due
from me.
Me. Indeed 'twas chiefly for this that I came—
that, on thy return home, I might reap some good.
Oe. Nay, I will never go near my parents.
Me. Ah my son, 'tis plain enough that thou
knowest not what thou doest.
Oe. How, old sir ? For the gods' love, tell me.
Me. If for these reasons thou shrinkest from
going home.
Oe. Aye, I dread lest Phoebus prove himself
true for me.
Me. Thou dreadest to be stained with guilt
through thy'parents?
Oe. Even so, old man—this it is that ever
affrights me.
Me. Dost thou know, then, that thy fears are
wholly vain?
Oe. How so, if I was born of those parents?
Me. Because Polybus was nothing to thee in
blood.

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1015

OEDIPUS
Oe. What sayest thou ? Was Polybus not my
sire ?
Me. No more than he who speaks to thee, but
just so much.
Oe. And how can my sire be level with him
who is as nought to me ?
Me. Nay, he begat thee not, any more than I.
Oe. Nay, wherefore, then, called he me his son?
Me. Know that he had received thee as a gift
from my hands of yore.
Oe. And yet he loved me so dearly, who came
from another's hand ?
Me. Yea, his former childlessness won him
thereto.
Oe. And thou—had'st thou bought me or found
me by chance, when thou gavest me to him ?
Me. Found thee in Cithaeron's winding glens.
Oe. And wherefore wast thou roaming in those
regions ?
Me. I was there in charge of mountain flocks.
Oe. What, thou wast a shepherd—a vagrant
hireling ?
Me. But thy preserver, my son, in that hour.
Oe. And what pain was mine when thou
did'st take me in thine arms ?
Me. The ankles of thy feet might witness.
Oe. Ah me, why dost thou speak of that old
trouble ?
Me. I freed thee when thou had'st thine ankles
pinned together.
Oe. Aye, 'twas a dread brand of shame that I
took from my cradle.
Me. Such, that from that fortune thou wast
called by the name which still is thine.
Oe. Oh, for the gods' love—was the deed my
mothers or father's ? Speak !
Me. I know not; he who gave thee to me wots
better of that than I.
Oe. What, thou had'st me from another ? Thou
did'st not light on me thyself?
Me. No: another shepherd gave thee up to me.
Oe. Who was he? Art thou in case to tell
clearly ?
Me. I think he was called one of the household
of La'ius.
Oe. The king who ruled this country long ago?
Me. The same: 'twas in his service that the
man was a herd.
Oe. Is he still alive, that I might see him ?
Me. Nay, ye folk of the country should know
best

^YRANNUS.

27

ΟΙ. πώς εΐπας; ου yap ΤΙόλυβος εζεφνσε με;
ΑΓ. ου μάλλον ουδέν τούδε τάνδρός, αλλ' Ισον.
01. και πώς ο φυσάς εξ Ισου τω μηδενί;
ΑΤΙ

*\\* ου σ * εγεινατ* ουτ > εκείνος ουτ » εγω.
»
* /
» ί Λ
* » /

,„A

ΑΓ. αλλ

1020

του δη παΐδα μ ώνομάζετο;
ΑΓ. δώρόν ποτ, ϊσθι, τών εμών χαρών λαβών.

ΟΙ. αλλ* αντί.

ΟΙ. καθ9 ώδ' απ' άλλης χειρός εστερξεν μέγα;
ΑΓ. η yap πρίν αυτόν εζεπεισ άπαιδία.
ΟΙ. συ δ'

εμπολησας η τυχών μ αυτω

δίδω?;

1025

ΑΓ. ενρών ναπαίαις iv Κιθαιρώνος πτυχαΐς.

01. ώδοιττόρεις δε προς τί τουσδε τους τόπους;
ΑΓ. Ιντανθ* ορείοις ποιμνίοις Ιπεστάτουν.
ΟΙ. ποιμην yap ησθα κάπι θητ€ΐα πλάνης;
ΑΓ. σου δ', ω τέκνον, σωτηρ ye τω τότ iv χρόνω.
ΟΙ. τί δ' άλγος ισχοντ αγκάλαισι λαμβάνεις;

1030

ΑΓ. 7τοδών αν αρθρα μαρτυρησ€ΐ€ν τα σά.
ΟΙ. οιμοι, τί τ ουτ άρχαΐον Ιννίπ^ις κακόν;
ΑΓ. λυω σ' έχοντα διατόρους ποδοΐν άκμάς.
ΟΙ. δεινόν y δνειδος σπαργανων άναλομην.

1035

ΑΓ. ωστ ώνομάσθης εκ τύχης ταύτης os ct.
ΟΙ. ώ προς θεών, προς μητρός, η πατρός; φράσον.
ΑΓ. ουκ οίδ'* ο 8ους 8ε ταΰτ εμοΰ λώον φρονεί.
ΟΙ. η yap παρ άλλου μ9 ελαβες ουδ' αυτός τυχο!ν;
ΑΓ. ουκ, αλλά ποιμην άλλος εκ8ίδωσί μοι.
ΟΙ. τίς ούτος; η κάτοισθα δηλώσαι λόγω;

1040

ΑΓ. τών Λάιου 8ηπου τις ώνομάζετο.
ΟΙ. η του τυράννου τησδε γης πάλαι ποτέ;
ΑΓ. μάλιστα' τουτου τάνδρος ούτος ην βοτηρ.
ΟΙ. η καστ ετι ζών ούτος, ώστ' Ιδεΐν εμε;

I0i5

ΑΓ. υμείς γ' άριστ είδεΐτ αν ούπιχωριοι.
4—2

28

OEDIPUS Τ YRANΝ US.

Oe. Is there any of you here present that knows
the herd of whom he speaks—that hath seen him
in the pastures or the town ? Answer! The hpur
hath come that these things should be finally
revealed.
Ch. Methinks he speaks of no other than the
peasant whom thou wast already fain to see; but
our lady Iocasta might best tell that.
Oe. Lady, wottest thou of him whom we lately
summoned ? Is it of him that this man speaks ?
Iο. Why ask of whom he spoke? Regard it
not...waste not a thought on what he said...'twere
idle.
Oe. It must not be that, with such clues in my
grasp, I should fail to bring my birth to light.
Io. For the gods' sake, if thou hast any care
for thine own life, forbear this search! My anguish
is enough.
Oe. Be of good courage; though I be found
the son of servile mother,—aye, a slave by three
descents,—thou wilt not be proved base-born.
Io. Yet hear me, I implore thee: do not thus.
Oe. I must not hear of not discovering the
whole truth.
Io. Yet I wish thee well—I counsel thee for
the best.
Oe. These best counsels, then, vex my patience.
Io. Ill-fated one ! May'st thou never come to
know who thou art!
Oe. Go, some one, fetch me the herdsman
hither,—and leave yon woman to glory in her
princely stock.
Io. Alas, alas, miserable!—that word alone
can I say unto thee, and no other word henceforth
for ever.
IOCASTA

OI. εστίν τις νμών τών παρεστώτων πέλας
όστις κάτοιδε τον βοτηρ ον εννέπει,
V » 9
> » »
λ
V
€ΐτ ουν επ αγρών €ΐτ€

'

κανυαο εισιοων;

σημηναθ\ ώς ό καιρός ηνρησθαι τάδε.

1050

ΧΟ. οΐμαι μεν ονδέν* άλλον η τον εζ αγρών,
ον κάμάτενες πρόσθεν είσιδείν' ατάρ
ηδ* άν τάδ' ουχ ηκιστ αν Ίοκάστη λίγοι.
ΟΙ. γνναι, νοεΐς εκείνον οντιν άρτίως
μολεΐν εφιεμεσθα; τόνδ* οντος λεγει;
ΙΟ. τι δ' οντιν είπε; μηδέν εντραπης.

1055

τα δε

ρηθέντα βονλου μηδέ μεμνησθαι μάτην.
ΟΙ. ουκ άν γένοιτο τον&, όπως εγώ λαβών
σημεία τοιαΰτ ον φανώ τονμον γένος.
ΙΟ. μη προς θεών, ειπερ τι τον σαντον βίον

1060

κήδει, μα τενσης τον θ*' άλις νοσονσ εγώ.
ΟΙ. θάρσει' σν μεν γαρ ουδ' εάν τρίτης εγώ
μητρός φανώ τρίδονλος εκφανεΐ κακή.
ΙΟ. ομως πιθον μοι, λίσσομαι' μη Spa τάδε.
ΟΙ. ονκ άν πιθοίμην μη ον τάδ9 εκμαθεΐν σαφώς.
ΙΟ. και

μην φρονονσά γ €t τα λώστά σοι λεγω.

ΟΙ. τά λωστα

τοίνυν ταύτα μ* άλγννει πάλαι.

ΙΟ. ώ δνσποτμ, είθε μήποτε γνοίης ο ς εΤ.
ΟΙ. άξει τις ελθών δενρο τον βοτηρά μοι;
ταντην δ* εάτε πλονσίω χαίρειν γένει.
10.

1070

ίον ίου, δνστηνε* τοντο γαρ σ εχω
μόνον προσειπεϊν, άλλο δ* ονπο& νστερον.

retires hastily into the palace.

Ch. Why hath the lady gone, Oedipus, in a
transport of wild grief? I misdoubt, a storm of
sorrow will break forth from this silence.
Oe. Break forth what will! Be my race never
so lowly, I must crave to learn it. Yon woman,
perchance—for she is proud with more than a
woman's pride—thinks shame of my base source.
But I, who hold myself son of Fortune that gives
good, will not be dishonoured.
She is the mother from whom I spring; and the
months, my kinsmen, have marked me sometimes
lowly, sometimes great. Such being my lineage,
never more can I prove false to it, or spare to search
out the secret of my birth.

ποτε βέβηκεν, Οιδίπους, υπ' άγριας
αζασα λνττης ή γννή; δεδοιχ οπως

ΧΟ. τι

μη 'κ της σιωττης τήσδ* άναρρήζει κακα.

1075

01. όποια γρίβζει ρηγνντω* τονμον δ* €γω,
κει σμικρόν εστί, σπερμ ίδεΐν βονλήσομαι.
αντη δ' Ισως, φρονεί γάρ ως γννη μεγα,
την δυσγενειαν την ε μην αισχννεται.
εγώ δ' εμαντόν παιδα της Ύνχης νεμων

1080

της εν διδονσης ονκ άτιμασθήσομαι.
της γάρ πεφνκα μητρός' οι δε σνγγενεΐς
μήνες με μικρόν και μεγαν διώρισαν.
τοιόσδε δ' εκφνς ονκ άν εξελθοιμ ετι
ποτ άλλος, ώστε μη 'κμαθεΐν τονμον γένος.

1085

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Ch. If I am a seer or wise of heart, Ο Cithaeron, thou shalt not fail—by yon heaven, thou shalt
not!—to know in the coming season of full moon
that Oedipus honours thee as native to him, as his
nurse, and his mother; and that thou art celebrated
in our dance and song, because thou art well-pleas­
ing to our prince. Ο Phoebus to whom we cry,
may these things find favour in thy sight!
Who was it, my son, who of the race whose
years are many, that bore thee in wedlock with
Pan, the mountain-roaming father? Or was thy
mother one whom Loxias loved ? For dear to him
are all the upland pastures. Or perchance 'twas
Cyllen^s lord, or the Bacchants' god, dweller on
the hill-tops, that received thee, a new-born joy,
from one of the Nymphs of Helicon, with whom
he most doth sport.
Oe. Elders, if 'tis for me to guess, who never
have met with him, I think I see the herdsman of
whom we have long been in quest; for in his
venerable age he tallies with yon stranger's years ;
and withal I know those who bring him, methinks,
as servants of mine own. But perchance thou
mayest have the advantage of me in knowledge, if
thou hast seen the herdsman before.

29

XO. €L7T€p εγώ μάντις είμϊ και κατά γνωμαν Ιδρις,

[στρ.

ου τον "Ολνμπον απείρων,
ω Κιθαιρων, ουκ εσει τάν ανριον

1090

πανσεληνον, μη ού σε γε και πατριωταν

Οΐδΐ7Γουν

καϊ τροφον και μ,ατερ' ανζειν,
και χορευεσθαι προς ημών, ώς επί ηρα φέροντα τοις
εμοις τύραννοι?.
Ιηϊε Φοΐβε, σοι δε ταντ άρεστ

ειη.

τις σε, τεκνον, τις σ ετικτε ταν μακραίωνων άρα [αντ. 1098
Πάνος ορεσσιβάτα πα-

1100

. τρος πελασ0είσ'; η σε y εννάτειρά τ is
Λοβίου; τω yap πλάκες άγρόνομοι πάσαι φίλα ι*
€10* ο Κυλλανας ανασσων,
εϊθ' ο Βάκχειος θεός ναίων επ

1104
άκρων ορέων εύρημα

δεξατ εκ του
Νυ/χφαν Έλικωνιδων, αΓς πλείστα συμπαίζει.
ΟΙ. ει χρη τι κάμε μη σνναλλά£βντα πω,

1110

πρέσβεις, σταθμασθαι, τον βοτηρ9 όραν δοκώ,
ονπερ πάλαι ζητονμεν.

εν τε yap μακρω

yyjpa ζννάδει τωδε τάνδρι σύμμετρος,
άλλως τε τους άγοντας ωσπερ οίκετας
εγνωκ

εμαντον' τfj δ' επιστήμη συ μου

προνχοις τάχ άν που, τον βοτηρ

1115

ίδών πάρος·

Enter a SHEPHERD, conducted by the servants of OEDIPUS.

Ch. Aye, I know him, be sure; he was in the
service of La'fus—trusty as any man, in his shep­
herd's place.
Oe. I ask thee first, Corinthian stranger, is this
he whom thou meanest ? Me. This man whom
thou beholdest.
Oe. Ho thou, old man—I would have thee
look this, way, and answer all that I ask thee.—
Thou wast once in the service of La'ius ?
Herdsman. I was;—a slave not bought, but
reared in his house.
Oe. Employed in what labour, or what way of
life ?
He. For the best part of my life I tended flocks.
Oe. And what the regions that thou didst
chiefly haunt ?
He. Sometimes it was Cithaeron, sometimes
the neighbouring ground.
Oe. Then wottest thou of haying noted yon
man in these parts—
He. Doing what ?
What man dost thou
mean ?

XO. εγνωκα γαρ, σάφ* ισθν Λαίου γαρ ην
ειπερ τις άλλος πιστός ως νομευς άνηρ.
ΟΙ. σε πρώτ

ερωτώ, τον Κοριν^ιον ζενον,

η τόνδε φράζεις;

ΑΓ. τούτον, ονίΤερ είσορας.

1120

ΟΙ» ούτος συ, πρεσβυ, δευρό μοι φωνει βλέπων
δσ

άν σ

ερωτώ.

Λαΐον ποτ ησθα συ;

ΘΕ. η, δούλος ουκ ώνητός, αλλ' οίκοι τραφείς.
ΟΙ. έργον μερίμνων ποιον η β ίον τίνα;
ΘΕ. ποίμναις τα πλείστα του βίου συναπάμην.
ΟΙ. χώροις μάλιστα προς τίσι £υναυλος ων;
ΘΕ. ην μα/ Κιθαιρών, ην δε πρόσχωρος τόπος.
ΟΙ. τον άνδρα τονδ* ουν οισθα τηδε που μαθών;
ΘΕ. τι χρημα δρώντα; ποιον άνδρα και

y

;

1125

3°

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

Oe. This man here—or of having ever met ΟΙ. τόνδ* os πάρ εστίν' ή ζνναλλάζας τί πω;
him before ?
He. Not so that I could speak at once from ΘΕ. ούχ ώστε γ ειπείν εν τάχει μνήμης νπο.
memory.
Me. And no wonder, master. But I will bring ΑΓ. κουδέν γε θαν μα, δέσποτ' αλλ' εγώ σαφώς
clear memory to his ignorance. I am sure that
άγνώτ άναμνησω νιν. εν γαρ οΐδ' ότι
he well wots of the time when we abode in the
κάτοιδεν ήμος τον Κιθαιρώνος τόπον
region of Cithaeron,—he with two flocks, I, his
ο μεν διπλοΐσι ποιμνίοις, εγώ δ* ivι
comrade, with one,—three full half-years, from
έπλησίαζον τωδε τάνδρι τρεις δλονς
spring to Arcturus; and then for the winter I used
εξ ήρος εις αρκτονρον εκμήνους χρόνους*
Λ
W
» / » » *
\» J \
to drive my flock to mine own fold, and he took
;χειμώνα ο ηοη ταμα τ εις επαυλ. εγω
his to the fold of La'ius. Did aught of this happen
ήλαυνον οΰτός τ εις τά Λάιου σταθμά.
as I tell, or did it not ?
λέγω τι τούτων, ή ου λέγω πεπραγμένον;
He. Thou speakest the truth—though 'tis long ΘΕ. λέγεις αληθή, καίπερ εκ μακρού χρόνου.
ago.
Me. Come, tell me now — wottest thou of ΑΓ. φέρ ειπε νυν, τότ οισθα παΐδά μοί τινα
having given me a boy in those days, to be reared
δούς, ως εμαυτω θρέμμα θρεψαίμην εγώ;
as mine own foster-son ?
He. What now? Why dost thou ask the ΘΕ. τί δ* εστί; προς τί τούτο τουπος Ιστορείς;
question ?
Λ ΤΙ
ί / t Λ
Λ
£
/ *
/
Me. Yonder man, my friend, is he who then ΑΓ. οο εστίν, ω ταν, κείνος ος τοτ > ην νέος.
was young.
ΘΕ. ουκ εις ολεθρον; ου σιωπή σας εσει;
He. Plague seize thee—be silent once for all!
Oe. Ha! chide him not, old man—thy words 01. α, μή κόλαζε, πρέσβυ, τόν8\ επει τά σα
need chiding more than his.
δεΐται κολαστοΰ μάλλον ή τά τον8* επη.
He. And wherein, most noble master, do I ΘΕ. τί δ*, ώ φέριστε δεσποτών, άμαρτάνω;
offend ?
Oe. In not telling of the boy concerning whom 01. ουκ εννέπων τον τταίδ' ον ούτος ιστορεί.
he asks.
He. He speaks without knowledge—he is busy ΘΕ. λέγει γάρ είδώς ουδέν, αλλ' άλλως πονεΐ.
to no purpose.
Oe. Thou wilt not speak with a good grace, 01. συ προς χάριν μεν ουκ ερεΐς, κλαίων & ερεΐς.
but thou shalt on pain.
He. Nay, for the gods' love, misuse not an old ΘΕ. μή δήτα, προς θεών, τον γέροντά μ' αίκιση.
man.
Oe. Ho, some one—pinion him this instant!
01. ονχ ως τάχος τις τονδ9 αποστρέψει χέρας;
He. Hapless that thou art, wherefore? what ΘΕ. δύστηνος, αντί του; τί προσχρήζων μαθεΐν;
more would'st thou learn ?
ΛΤ
\
ΛΜ
ΛΜ Λ
*
β
Λ
Oe. Didst thou give this man the child of ΟΙ. τον παιο εόωκας τωο ον ούτος ιστορεί;
whom he asks ?
ημέρα,..
He. I did,—and would I had perished that ΘΕ. εδωκ' όλέσθαι δ' ωφελον
day!
Oe. Well, thou wilt come to that, unless thou 01. αλλ' είς τοδ' ήζεις μή λέγων γε τουνδικον.
tell the honest truth.
ΘΕ. ττολλω γε μάλλον, ήν φράσω, διόλλνμαι.
He. Nay, much more am I lost, if I speak.
Oe. The fellow is bent, methinks, on more 01. άνήρ δδ*, ώς εοικεν, ες τριβάς ελα.
delays.·.
He. No, no!—I said before that I gave it to ΘΕ. ου δητ εγωγ*, αλλ* εΐπον ως δοίην πάλαι.
him.
Oe. Whence hadst thou got it ? In thine own 01. πόθεν λαβών; οίκεΐον, ή "ξ άλλου τινός;
house, or from another ?

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
He. Mine own it was not—I had received it
from a man.
Oe. From whom of the citizens here? from
what home ?
He. Forbear, for the gods' love, master, forbear
to ask more!
Oe. Thou art lost if I have to question thee
again.
He. It was a child, then, of the house of La'ius.
Oe. A slave ? or one born of his own race ?
He. Ah me—I am on the dreaded brink of
speech.
Oe. And I of hearing; yet must I hear.
He. Well, then, 'twas said to be his own child—
but thy lady within could best say how these things
are.
Oe. How? She gave it to thee? He. Yea,
Ο king.
Oe. For what end ? He. That I should make
away with it.
Oe. Her own child, the wretch? He. Aye,
from fear of evil prophecies.
Oe. What were they ? He. The tale ran that
he must slay his sire.
Oe. Why, then, didst thou give him up to this
old man ?
He. Through pity, master, as deeming that he
would bear him away to another land, whence he
himself came; but he saved him, for the direst
woe. For if thou art what this man saith, know
that thou wert born to misery.
Oe. Oh, oh! All brought to pass—all true !
Thou light, may I now look my last on thee—I
who have been found accursed in birth, accursed in
wedlock, accursed in the shedding of blood !
[He rushes into the palace.
Ch. Alas, ye generations of men, how mere a
shadow do I count your life!

Where, where is the

31

ΘΕ. εμον μεν ουκ εγωγ*, εδεζάμην δ4 τον.
ΟΙ. τίνος πολιτών τώνδε κάκ ποίας στέγης;

ΘΕ. μη προς θεών, μη, δεσποθ\ Ιστορεί πλέον.

1165

ΟΙ. δλωλας, εϊ σε ταντ ερησομαι πάλιν·

ΘΕ. των Λαΐου τοίνυν τις ην γεννημάτων.
ΟΙ. η δούλος, η κείνου τις εγγενής γεγώς;

ΘΕ. οΐμοι, προς αυτώ γ' είμι τα δεινώ λεγειν.
ΟΙ. κάγωγ άκονειν' αλλ' ομως άκουστεον.
ΘΕ. κείνου γέ τοι δη παις εκλφζεθ*' η δ' εσω
κάλλιστ αν εϊποι ση γυνη τάδ* ως εχει.

1170

ΟΙ. η γαρ δίδωσιν ηδε σοι; ΘΕ. μάλιστ, αναζ.
ΟΙ. ως προς τί χρείας; ΘΕ. ώ? άναλώσαιμί νιν.
ΟΙ. τεκονσα τλημων; ΘΕ. θεσφάτων γ* οκνω κακών. 1175
ΟΙ. ποίων; ΘΕ. κτενεΐν νιν τους τεκόντας ην λόγος.
ΟΙ. πώς δητ άφηκας τω γεροντι τωδε συ;
ΘΕ. κατοικτίσας, ω δεσποθ', ώς άΧλην γθονα
δοκών άποίσειν, αυτός ένθεν ην· ο δε
κάκ ες μεγιστ εσωσεν.

ει γαρ ούτος ει

1180

ον φησιν οντος, ϊσθι δύσποτμος γεγως.

ΟΙ. Ιου ιού· τά πάντ αν εξηκοι σαφή.
ω φώς, τελευταΐόν σε προσβλεψαιμι νυν,
όστις πεφασμαι φύς τ αφ* ων ου χρην, £νν οίς τ
ου χρην ομιλών, ους τε μ ουκ εδει κτανων.
1185

ΧΟ. Ιώ γενεαι βροτών,
[στρ. α.
ώς ν μας Ισα καΐ το μηδέν ζώσας εναριθμίχ.

happy Oedipus—to call no earthly creature blest.

τις γαρ, τίς άνηρ πλέον
τας ευδαιμονίας φερει
1190
η τοσούτον οσον δοκεΐν
και δόξαντ άποκλΐναι;
τον σον τοι παράδειγμ εχων,
τον σον δαίμονας τον σον, ώ τλαμον Οιδίποδα, βροτών 1195
ουδέν μάκαρίζω·

For he, Ο Zeus, sped his shaft with peerless
skill, and won the prize of an all-prosperous for­
tune ; he slew the maiden with crooked talons who
sang darkly; he arose for our land as a tower
against death. And from that time, Oedipus, thou

οστις καθ* ύπερβολαν
[αντ. α.
τοξευσας εκράτησε του πάντ ενδαίμονος ολβου,
ω Ζευ, κατά μεν φθίσας
τάν γαμψώνυχα παρθενον
χρησμωδόν, θανάτων δ' εμα
1200
χωρα πύργος άνοστα*

mortal who wins more of happiness than just the
seeming, and, after the semblance, a falling away ?
Thine is a fate that warns me,—thine, thine, un-

32

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

hast been called oUr king, and hast been honoured
supremely, bearing sway in great Thebes.
JBut now whose story is more grievous in men's
ears ? Who is a more wretched captive to fierce
plagues and troubles, with all his life reversed ?
Alas, renowned Oedipus ! The same bounteous
place of rest sufficed thee, as child and as sire also,
that thou should'st make thereon thy nuptial couch.
Oh, how can the soil wherein thy father sowed, unhappy one, have suffered thee in silence so long ?
Time the all-seeing hath found thee out in thy
despite : he judgeth the monstrous marriage where­
in begetter and begotten have long been one.
Alas, thou child of La'ius, would, would that I
had never seen thee! I wail as one who pours a
dirge from his lips; sooth to speak, 'twas thou that
gavest me new life, and through thee darkness hath
fallen upon mine eyes.

εζ ov και βασιλεύς καλεί
εμος και τά μεγιστ inμάθης, ταΐς μεγάλαισιν iv
Θηβαισιν άνάσ&ων.
ταννν δ' άκονειν τις αθλιώτερος;
[στρ. β'. 1204
τts arats άγρίαις, τις εν πόνοις
ξυνοικος αλλαγα βίου;
ιώ κλεινόν Οίδίπου κάρα,
ω μέγας λιμην
1208
αυτός ήρκεσεν
παίδι και πατρι θαλαμηπόλω πεσεΐν,
πώς ποτ€ πως ποθ' at πατρώαί or' αλοκ€5 φερειν9 τάλας,
σΐγ* εδννάθησαν ες τοσόνδε;
εφεύρε σ άκονθ* ό πάν θ* ορών χρόνος* [άντ. β. 1213
δικάζει τον άγαμον γαμον πάλαι
τεκνουντα και τεκνούμενον.
1215
Ιώ Ααίειον ώ τεκνον,
είθε σ ειθε σε
μηποτ είδόμαν.
δνρομαι yap ώσπερ Ιάλεμον χεων
εκ στομάτων. το δ' ορθόν ειπείν, άνεπνενσά τ εκ σεθεν
και κατεκοίμησα τον μον όμμα.
1222

Enter a MESSENGER from the PALACE.
Messenger. Ye who are ever most honoured EH. Ώ γης μέγιστα τησδ* άει τιμώμενοι,,
in this land, what deeds shall ye hear, what deeds
οΓ εργ α κονσεσθ*, οία δ' είσόψεσθ*, όσον δ*
behold, what burden of sorrow shall be yours,
άρ^ίσθε πένθος, εΐπερ εγγενώς ετι
if, true to your race, ye still care for the house
τών Ααβδακείων εντρεπεσθε δωμάτων.
of Labdacus! For I ween that not Ister nor
οίμαι γαρ οντ αν *1 στρον οντε Φασιν αν
Phasis could wash this house clean, so many are
νίψαι καθαρμώ τηνδε την στεγην, όσα
the ills that it shrouds, or will soon bring to light,
κενθει, τά δ' αντίκ εις το φώς φάνει κακά
—ills wrought not unwittingly, but of purpose.
έκόντα κονκ άκοντα, τών δε πημονών
And those griefs smart most which are seen to be
μάλιστα λυπονσ αι φανώσ αυθαίρετοι.
of our own choice.
Ch, Indeed those which we knew before fall ΧΟ. λείπει μεν ονδ' ά πρόσθεν φδειμεν το μη ου
not short of claiming sore lamentation: besides
βαρνστον είναι* προς δ' εκείνοισιν τί φης;
them, what dost thou announce ?
Me. This is the shortest tale to tell and to ΕΗ. ο μεν τάχιστος τών λόγων εϊπεΐν τε και
μαθεΐν, τεθνηκε θείον Ίοκάστης "κάρα.
hear: our royal lady Iocasta is dead.
ΧΟ. ώ δυσταλαινα, προς τίνος ποτ αιτίας;
Ck. Alas, hapless one! From what cause ?
Me. By her own hand. The worst pain in ΕΒ. αυτή προς αντης. τών δε πραχθεντων τά μεν
what hath chanced is not for you, for yours it is
άΧγιστ απεστιν* η γαρ οψις ου πάρα.
not to behold. Nevertheless, so far as mine own
όμως δ\ όσον γε καν εμοι μνήμης ενι,
memory serves, ye shall learn that unhappy wo­
πείσει τά κείνης άθλιας παθήματα.
man's fate.
When, frantic, she had passed within the vesti­
οττως γαρ όργβ χρωμενη παρήλθ* εσω
bule, she rushed straight towards her nuptial couch,
θυρώνος, ιετ ενθν προς τά νυμφικά
clutching her hair with the fingers of both hands ;
λεχη, κόμην σπώσ άμφιδεξίοις άκμαΐς*
once within the chamber, she dashed the doors
πνλας δ', όπως είσηλθ', επιρράξασ εσω,
together at her back; then called on the name of
Laius, long since a corpse, mindful of that Son,
καλεΐ τον ήδη Ααί,ον πάλαι νεκρόν,

1225

1230

1235

1240

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begotten long ago, by whom the sire was slain,
leaving the mother to breed accursed offspring
with his own.
And she bewailed the wedlock wherein, wretched,
she had borne a twofold brood, husband by hus­
band, children by her child. And how thereafter
she perished, is more than I know. For with a
shriek Oedipus burst in. and suffered us not to
watch her woe unto the end ; on him, as he rushed
around, our eyes were set. To and fro he went,
asking us to give him a sword,—asking where he
should find the wife who was no wife, but a mother
whose womb had borne alike himself and his
children. And, in his frenzy, a power above man
was his guide; for 'twas none of us mortals who
were nigh. And with a dread shriek, as though
some one beckoned him on, he sprang at the
double doors, and from their sockets forced the
bending bolts, and rushed into the room.
There beheld we the woman hanging by the
neck in a twisted noose of swinging cords. But
he, when he saw her, with a dread, deep cry of
misery, loosed the halter whereby she hung. And
when the hapless woman was stretched upon the
ground, then was the sequel dread to see. For he
tore from her raiment the golden brooches where­
with she was decked, and lifted them, and smote
full on his own eye-balls, uttering words like these:
'No more shall ye behold such horrors as I was
suffering and working ! long enough have ye looked
on those whom ye ought never to have seen, failed
in knowledge of those whom I yearned to know—
henceforth ye shall be dark !'
To such dire refrain, not once alone but oft
struck he his eyes with lifted hand; and at each
blow the ensanguined eye-balls bedewed his beard,
nor sent forth sluggish drops of gore, but all at
once a dark shower of blood came down like
hail.
From the deeds of twain such ills have broken
forth, not on one alone, but with mingled woe for
man and wife. The old happiness of their an­
cestral fortune was aforetime happiness indeed;
but to-day—lamentation, ruin, death, shame, all
earthly ills that can be named—all, all are theirs.
Ch. And hath the sufferer now any respite
from pain ?
Me. He cries for some one to unbar the
gates, and show to all the Cadmeans his father's
slayer, his mothers—the unholy word must not be
spoken,—as purposing to cast himself out of the
*

33

μνήμην παλαιών σπερμάτων εχονσ νφ* ων
Θάνοι μεν αυτός, την δ€ τίκτονσαν λίποι
τοις οίσιν αντον δνστεκνον παιδουργίαν.
γοατο 8' εννάς, ενθα δνστηνος διπλούς
i£ αν8ρός άνδρα και τέκν εκ τέκνων τέκοι.
χωπως μεν Ικ τώνδ* ονκέτ

1250

οιδ' απολλυται*

βοών yap είσέπαισεν Οιδίπους, νφ* ον
ονκ ην το κείνης εκθεάσασθαι κακόν,
αλλ' €ΐς εκεΐνον περιπολονντ έλενσσομεν.
φοίτα yap ή μας εγχος εζαιτών πορεΐν,

1255

γυναικά τ ον γυναίκα, μητρωαν δ' όπου
κίχοι διπλήν αρονραν ον τε και τέκνων.
λνσσώντι δ' αν τω δαιμόνων δείκννσί τις'
ουδείς γαρ ανδρών οι τταρήμεν εγγνθεν.
δεινόν δ' άνσας ως νφηγητον τίνος

1260

πυλαις διπλαΐς ενήλατ, εκ δε πυθμένων
εκλιν€ κοίλα κληθρα κάμπίπτει στέγη.
ον δη κρεμαστην την γνναΐκ εσείδομεν
πλεκταΐσιν αίωραισιν εμπεπλεγμένην.
ο δ* ως όρα νιν, δεινά βρνχηθεις ταλας
χαλα κρεμαστην άρτάνην.

1265

έττεί δε γη

εκείτο τλήμων, δείνα δ' ην τανθένδ* όρα ν.
άποσπάσας yap ειμάτων χρνσηλάτονς
7τερόνας άπ αυτής, αΐσιν εξεστέλλετο,
αρας επαισεν αρθρα τών αντον κύκλων,

1270

αΰδών τοιανθ', όθοννεκ ονκ όψοιντό νιν
ονθ* οΓ ϊττασχεν ονθ* όποίι έδρα κακά,
αλλ' εν σκότω το λοιπόν ους μεν ονκ εδει
όψοίαθ\ ονς δ' έχρηζεν ον γνωσοίατο.
τοιαντ εφνμνών πολλάκις τε κονχ απαζ

1275

ηρασσ επαφών βλέφαρα* φοίνιαι δ' όμον
γληναι γένει ετεγγον, ουδ' άνίεσαν
φόνον μνδωσας σταγόνας, αλλ' όμον μέλας
ομβρος χαλάζης αίματονς ετέγγετο.
τάδ' εκ δνοΐν ερρωγεν ον μόνον κάτα,

1280

αλλ' άνδρι και γνναικι σνμμιγη κακά.
ο πριν παλαιός δ' δλβος ην πάροιθε μεν
όλβος δικαίως· ννν δε τηδε θημέρα
στεναγμός, ατη, θάνατος, αίσχννη, κακών
όσ εστι πάντων όνοματ, ουδέν εστ άπόν.

1285

ΧΟ. νυν δ' εσθ* ό τλήμων εν τινι σχολή κάκου;
ΕΗ. βοα διοίγειν κληθρα και δηλονν τίνα
τοις πασι Καδ/χβίοισι τον πατροκτόνον,
τον μητρός, ανδών άνόσι οΰδε ρητά μοι,
ώς εκ χθονός ρίψων εαυτόν, οΰδ' €τι

1290

34

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

land, and abide no more, to make the house accursed
under his own curse. Howbeit he lacks strength,
and one to guide his steps ; for the anguish is more
than man can bear. And he will show this to thee
also; for lo, the bars of the gates are withdrawn,
and soon thou shalt behold a sight which even he
who abhors it must pity.

μενών δόμοις αραιός, ως ηράσατο.
ρώμης γε μέντοι και προηγητον τίνος
δείται* το yap νόσημα μείζον η φέρειν.
δείξει δε και σοι.

κλτ}θρα yap πυλών τάδε

διοίγεταϊ θέαμα δ* εΐσόψει τάχα

1295

τοιούτον οιον και στνγονντ εποικτίσαι.

Enter OEDIPUS.
Ch. Ο dread fate for men to see, Ο most
dreadful of all that have met mine eyes! Unhappy one, what madness hath come on thee?
Who is the unearthly foe that, with a bound of
more than mortal range, hath made thine ill-starred
life his prey ?
Alas, thou hapless one! Nay, I cannot e'en
look on thee, though there is much that I would
fain ask, fain learn, much that draws my wistful
gaze,—with such a shuddering dost thou fill
me!
Oe. Woe, woe is me!
Alas, alas, wretched that I am! Whither,
whither am I borne in my misery? How is my
voice swept abroad on the wings of the air ? Oh
my Fate, how far hast thou sprung!
Ch. To a dread place, dire in men's ears, dire
in their sight.
Oe. Ο thou horror of darkness that enfoldest
me, visitant unspeakable, resistless, sped by a wind
too fair!
Ay me, and yet again, ay me!
How is my soul pierced by the stab of these
goads, and withal by the memory of sorrows !
Ch. Yea, mid woes so many a twofold pain
may well be thine to mourn and to bear.

XO. ώ δεινον ί§ειν πάθος άνθρώποις,
ω δεινότατον πάντων όσ
προσέκνρσ ηδη.

εγώ

τις σ', ώ τλημον,

προσέβη μανία; τις ό πηδησας

1300

μείζονα δαίμων των μακίστων
προς ση δνσδαίμονι μοίρα;
φεν, δύστανος*
αλλ' ουδ' εσιδειν δύναμαί σ, εθέλων
7τόλλ' ανερέσθαι, πολλά 7τνθέσθαι,
πολλά δ* άθρησαι*

1305

τοιαν φρίκην παρέχεις μοι.
ΟΙ. αΐαι, αίαι*
φεν φευ, δΰστανος εγώ,
π οι γας φέρομαι τλάμων; πα μοι
1310

φθογγά διαπωτάται φοράδην;
ίώ δαΐμον, ϊν εζηΧον.
ΧΟ. ες δεινόν, ονδ* άκονστόν, ονδ' επόψιμον.

ΟΙ. ίώ σκότου

[στρ. α.

νέφος εμον απότροπον, επιπλόμενον αφατον,
άδάματόν τε και δνσονριστον δν.

1315

οιμοι,
οιμοι μάλ* ανθις' οιον εΐσεδυ μ άμα
κέντρων τε τώνδ* οΐστρημα και μνήμη κακών.
ΧΟ. και θανμά y ουδέν εν τοσοίσδε πημασιν
διπλά σε πενθεΐν και διπλά φέρειν κακά.

1320

Oe. Ah, friend, thou still art steadfast in thy
tendance of me,—thou still hast patience to care
for the blind man. Thy presence is not hid from
me—no, dark though I am, yet know I thy voice
full well.
Ch. Man of dread deeds, how could'st thou in
such wise quench thy vision ? What more than
human power urged thee ?

ΟΙ. ίώ φίλος,
[άντ. α.
συ μεν εμος επίπολος ετι μόνιμος, ετι γαρ
υπομένεις με τον τνφλδν κηδευων.
φευ φεν.
ον γαρ με ληθεις, αλλά γιγνώσκω σαφως,
1325
καίπερ σκοτεινός, την γε ση ν ανδην όμως.
ΧΟ. ώ δεινά δράσας, πώς έτλης τοιαύτα σας

Oe. Apollo, friends, Apollo was he that brought
these my woes to pass, these my sore, sore woes:
but the hand that struck the eyes was none save
mine, wretched that I am ! Why was I to see,
when sight could show me nothing sweet ?

ΟΙ. 'Απόλλων τάδ* ην, 'Απόλλων, φίλοι,

όψεις μαράναι; τις σ επήρε δαιμόνων;
[στρ. β'.

ό κακά κακά τελαν εμά τάδ' έμά παθέα.

1330

ειτάισε δ9 αντόχειρ νιν οντις, αλλ' εγώ τλάμων.
τι γαρ εδει μ όράν,
δτω γ' όρωντι μηδέν ην Ιδεΐν γλνκν;

1335

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
Ch. These things were even as thou sayest.
Oe. Say, friends, what can I more behold, what
can I love, what greeting can touch mine ear with
joy?

Haste, lead me from the land, friends, lead

me hence, the utterly lost, the thrice accursed, yea,
the mortal most abhorred of heaven !
Ch. Wretched alike for thy fortune and for
thy sense thereof, would that I had never so much
as known thee !
Oe. Perish the man, whoe'er he was, that freed
me in the pastures from the cruel shackle on my
feet, and saved me from death, and gave me back
to life,—a thankless deed ! Had I died then, to
my friends and to mine own soul I had not been so
sore a grief.
Ch. I also would have had it thus.
Oe. So had I not come to shed my father's
blood, nor been called among men the spouse of
her from whom I sprang: but now am I forsaken
of the gods, son of a defiled mother, successor to
his bed who gave me mine own wretched being:
and if there be yet a woe surpassing woes, it hath
become the portion of Oedipus.
Ch. I know not how I can say that thou hast
counselled well: for thou wert better dead than
living and blind.
Oe. Show me not at large that these things
are not best done thus : give me counsel no more.
For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes I
could e'er have looked on my father, when I came
to the place of the dead,—aye, or on my miserable
mother,—since against both I have sinned such
sins as strangling could not punish. But deem ye
that the sight of children, born as mine were born,
was lovely for me to look upon ? No, no, not
lovely to mine eyes for ever ! No, nor was this
town with its towered walls, nor the sacred statues
of the gods; since I, thrice wretched that I am,—-I,
noblest of the sons of Thebes,—have doomed my­
self to know these no more, by mine own command
that all should thrust away the impious one,—even
him whom gods have shown to be unholy—and of
the race of La'ius !
After discovering that such a stain was mine,
could I look with steady eyes on this folk ? No,
verily: no, were there yet a way to choke the fount
of hearing, I had not spared to make a fast prison of
this wretched frame, that so I should have known

35

XO. ην ταΰθ* όπωσπερ και συ φης.
ΟΙ. τι δητ εμοι βλεπτόν, η
στερκτόν, η προσήγορον
έτ εστ άκονειν ηδονα, φίλοι;
άπάγετ έκτόπιον ότι τάχιστα με,
άπάγετ ω φίλοι, τον μεγ ολέθριον,
τον καταρατότατον, έτι δε και θεοίς
έχθρότατον βροτών.
XO. δείλαιε τον νου της τε συμφοράς Ισον,

1340

1345

ως σ ηθέλησα μηδέ y αν γνώναί ποτ ε.

[αντ. β.

ΟΙ. ολοιθ* όστις ην ος αγρίας πέ&ας
νομαδ' επιποδίας έλυσ από τ€ φόνου

1350

έρρυτο κάνέσωσέ μ, ουδέν εις χάριν πράσσων.
τότε yap αν θανών
ουκ ην φίλοισιν ουδ* εμοι τοσόν8' άχος.

1355

ΧΟ. θέλοντι κάμοι τουτ αν ην.
ΟΙ. ονκουν πατρός y αν φονενς
ηλθον, ούδε νυμφίος
βροτοΐς εκληθην ων εφνν αϊτο.
νυν δ* άθεος μέν εϊμ, ανοσιών δε παις,
ομογενής δ' αφ' ων αυτός εφνν τάλας.
ει δέ τι πρεσβντερον έτι κάκου κακόν,
τουτ' έλαχ Οιδίπους.
ΧΟ. ουκ οΐδ' όπως σε φω βεβουλενσθαι καλώς'

Ι3β0

1365

κρείσσων yap ησθα μηκέτ ων η ζων τυφλός.
ΟΙ. ως μίν τάδ' ουχ ώδ* έστ αριστ είργασμένα,
μη μ έκδίδασκε, μηδε συμβούλου έτι.

1370

€γώ yap ουκ οΤδ' όμμασιν ποίοις βλέπων
πατέρα ποτ αν προσείδον εις "Αώου μόλων,

οΰδ' αν τάλαιναν μητέρ, οίν έμοι δυόΐν
epy έστι κρείσσον αγχόνης ειργασμένα.
αλλ*

η τέκνων δητ όψις ην έφίμερος,

1375

βλαστουσ όπως eβλαστέ, προσλενσσειν Ιμοί;
ον δη τα τοις γ' έμοΐσιν όφθαλμοϊς ποτέ'

ουδ' αστυ γ*, ουδε ττνργος, ονδε δαιμόνων
άγάλμαθ' ιερά, των ό παντλημων εγώ
κάλλιστ άνηρ εις εν γε ταΐς · ®ήβαις τραφείς

1380

άπεστέρησ εμαυτόν, αυτός εννέπων
ώθεΐν άπαντας τον άσεβη, τον εκ θεών
φανέντ αναγνον και γένους τον Λάιου.

τοιάνδ' €γώ κηλίδα μηννσας εμην
όρθοΐς ε μέλλον όμμασιν τούτους όραν;

1385

ηκιστά γ'β αλλ' ει της άκονούσης ετ ην
πηγης δι ώτων φραγμός, ουκ αν εσχόμην
τό μη 'ποκλβσαι τούμον άθλων δέμας9

5—2

36

OEDIPUS Τ YR ANN US.

nor sight nor sound ; for 'tis sweet that our thought
should dwell beyond the sphere of griefs.
Alas, Cithaeron, why hadst thou a shelter for
me ? When I was given to thee, why didst thou
not slay me straightway, that so I might never
have revealed my source to men ? Ah, Polybus,—
ah, Corinth, and thou that wast called the ancient
house of my fathers, how seeming-fair was I your
nursling, and what ills were festering beneath!
For now I am found evil, and of evil birth. Ο ye
three roads, and thou secret glen,—thou coppice,
and narrow way where three paths met—ye who
drank from my hands that father's blood which
was mine own,—remember ye, perchance, what
deeds I wrought for you to see ?—and then, when I
came hither, what fresh deeds I went on to do ?
Ο marriage-rites, ye gave me birth, and when
ye had brought me forth, again ye bore children to
your child, ye created an incestuous kinship of
fathers, brothers, sons,—brides, wives, mothers,—
yea, all the foulest shame that is wrought among
men! Nay, but 'tis unmeet to name what 'tis
unmeet to do:—haste ye, for the gods' love, hide
me somewhere beyond the land, or slay me, or
cast me into the sea, where ye shall never behold
me more! Approach,—deign to lay your hands on
a wretched man ;—hearken, fear not,—my plague
can rest on no mortal beside.

Iv η τυφλός τε

και κλνων μηδέν' το γαρ

την φροντιδ' εζω των κακών οίκεΐν γλυκύ.

1390

ιώ Κιθαιρών, τί μ εδεχου; τί μ ου λαβών
εκτεινας ευθύς,

o>s ίδειζα μψτοτβ

εμαντόν άνθρωποισιν ενθ εν η γεγώς;

τα πάτρια
λογω παλαιά δώμαθ\ οίον αρά με

ω ΤΙόλυβε καϊ Κ,όρινθε καϊ

1395

κάλλος κακών ϋπουλον εζεθρεψατε.
νυν γαρ κακός τ ών κάκ κακών ευρίσκομαι.
ώ τρεις κελευθοι και κε κρυμμένη νάπη
δρυμός τε και στενωπός εν τριπλαΐς οSots,
at τούμόν αιμα των εμών χειρών άπο
εττίετε πατρός, αρά μου μεμνησθε τι,
οΓ εργα δράσας υμιν είτα δ εν ρ ιών
οποΐ* επρασσον αύθις; ώ γάμοι γάμοι,
εφύσαθ' ημάς, και φυτεύσαντες πάλιν
ανειτε τ αυτοί) σπέρμα, κάπεδειζατε
πατέρας, αδελφούς, παΐδας, αΧμ εμφύλιον,

1400

1405

νύμφας γυναίκας μητέρας τε, χώπόσα
αισχιστ εν άνθρώποισιν εργα γίγνεται.
άλΧ ου γαρ αύδαν εσθ' α μηδε δράν καλόν,
όπως τάχιστα προς θεών εζω με που
καΧύψατ, η φονεύσατ, η θαλάσσιον

1410

εκρίψατ, εν θα μηποτ είσόψεσθ' ετι.
ιτ, α£ιωσατ ανδρός άθλιου θιγεΐν.
πίθεσθε, μη δείσητε. τάμα γαρ κακά
ουδείς οίος τε πλην εμού φερειν βροτών.

1415

Enter CREON, attended.

Ch. Nay, here is Creon, in meet season for XO. αλλ' ών επαιτείς ες δεον πάρεσθ' οδε
thy requests, crave they act or counsel; for he
Κρέων το πρασσειν και το βουλεύειν, επεϊ
alone is left to guard the land in thy stead.
χώρας λελειπται μουνος άντι σου φύλαξ.
Oe. Ah rfie, how indeed shall I accost him ? ΟΙ. οΐμοι, τι δητα λεζομεν προς τόνδ* επος;
What claim to grace can be shown on my part ?
τις μοι φανεΐται πίστις ένδικος; τά γαρ
For in the past I have been found wholly false
παρος προς αυτόν πάντ εφευρημαι κακός.
to him.
Cr. I have not come in mockery, Oedipus, nor ΚΡ. ονχ ως γελαστής, Οιδίπους, εληλυθα,
to reproach thee with any bygone fault.—{To the
ούδ' ως όνειδιών τι των πάρος κακών.
Attendants.) But ye, if ye respect the children of
αλλ* €ΐ τά θνητών μη καταισχυνεσθ* ετι
men no more, revere at least the all-nurturing flame
γενεθλα, την γουν πάντα βοσκούσαν φλόγα
of our lord the Sun,—spare to show thus nakedly
αΐδεΐσθ' άνακτος Ήλιου, τοιόνδ* άγος
a pollution such as this,—one which neither earth
άκαλυπτον ούτω δεικνύναι, το μήτε γη
can welcome, nor the holy rain, nor the light. Nay,
μητ όμβρος Ιερός μητε φώς προσδίδεται.
take him into the house as quickly as ye may ; for
αλλ' ώ? τάχιστ ες οΐκον εσκομίζετε'
it best accords with piety that kinsfolk alone should
τοΐς εν γενεί γαρ τάγγενη μάλισθ* όράν
μόνοις τ άκούειν εύσεβώς εχει κακά.
see and hear a kinsman's woes.
Oe. For the gods' love—since thou hast done ΟΙ. προς θεών, επείπερ ελπίδος μ* άπεσπασας,
a gentle violence to my presage, who hast come in

1420

1425

1430

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
a spirit so noble to me, a man most vile—grant me
a boon:—for thy good I will speak, not for mine
own.
Cr. And what wish art thou so fain to have of
me?
Oe. Cast me out of this land with all speed,
to a place where no mortal shall be found to greet
me more.
Cr. This would I have done, be thou sure, but
that I craved first to learn all my duty from the
god.
Oe. Nay, his behest hath been set forth in
full,—to destroy the parricide, the unholy one, that
I am.
Cr. Such was the purport; yet, seeing to what
a pass we have come, 'tis better to learn clearly
what should be done.
Oe. Will ye, then, seek a response on behalf of
such a wretch as I am ?
Cr. Aye, for thou thyself wilt now surely put
faith in the god.
Oe. Yea; and on thee lay I this charge, to
thee will I make this entreaty:—give to her who
is within such burial as thou thyself wouldest; for
thou wilt meetly render the last rites to thine own.
But for me—never let this city of my sire be
condemned to have me dwelling therein, while I
live: no, suffer me to abide on the hills, where
yonder is Cithaeron, famed as mine,—which my
mother and sire, while they lived, set for my ap­
pointed tomb,—that so I may die by their decree
who sought to slay me. Howbeit of thus much am
I sure,—that neither sickness nor aught else can
destroy me; for never had I been snatched from
death, but in reserve for some strange doom.
Nay, let my fate go whither it will: but as touch­
ing my children,—I pray thee, Creon, take no care
on thee for my sons; they are men, so that, be
they where they may, they can never lack the
means to live. But my two girls, poor hapless
ones,—who never knew my table spread apart, or
lacked their father's presence, but ever in all things
shared my daily bread,—I pray thee, care for them;
and—if thou canst—suffer me to touch them with
my hands, and to indulge my grief. Grant it,
prince, grant it, thou noble heart! Ah, could I
but once touch them with my hands, I should think
that they were with me, even as when I had sight...

37

άριστος ελθών προς κάκιστοι/ άνδρ1 εμέ,
πίθου τί μοι* προς σου yap, ονδ' εμον, φράσω.
ΚΡ. και τον μ€ χρείας ώδε λιπαρέΐς τυχεΐν;

1435

ΟΙ. ρΐψόν με γης εκ τησδ' οσον τάχισΦ, οπου
θνητών φανονμαι μηδενός προστ γορος.
ΚΡ. εδρασ αν ευ τον τ ισθ* αν, εΐ μη τον θεον
πρώτιστ εχρηζον εκμαθειν τί πρακτεον.
ΟΙ. αλλ' η y εκείνον πάσ εδηλώθη φάτις,

1440

τον πατροφόντην, τον άσεβη μ απολλνναι.
ΚΡ. όντως ελέχθη τανθ9' δμως δ*, ιν εσταμεν
χρείας, αμεινον εκμαθειν τί δραστέον.
ΟΙ. όντως αρ ανδρός άθλίον πενσεσθ* νπερ;
ΚΡ. και yap σν ννν τάν τω θεώ πίστιν φέροις.

1445

ΟΙ. και σοι y επισκηπτω τε και προστρεψομαι,
της μεν κατ οΐκονς αντος ον θέλεις τάφον
θον* και yap ορθώς τών ye σών τελείς νπερ·
εμον δε μηποτ άξιωθητω τόδε
πατρωον άστυ ζώντος οίκητον τνχεΐν,

1450

αλλ' εα με ναίειν ορεσιν, ενθα κ Χέζεται
ονμος Κιθαιρών οντος, ον μητηρ τέ μοι
πατήρ τ εθέσθην ζώντε κνριον τάφον,
ιν εξ εκείνων, οΐ μ άπωλλντην, θάνω,
καίτοι τοσούτον y οίδα, μήτε μ αν νόσον

1455

μητ άλλο πέρσαι μηδέν* ον yap αν ποτέ
θνησκων εσώθην, μη *πί τω δεινώ κακώ.
αλλ* η μεν ημών μοιρ, οποιπερ εϊσ, ιτω'
παίδων δε τών μεν αρσένων μη μοι,. Κρέον,
προσθγ! μέριμναν' άνδρες είσίν, ώστε μη

1400

σπάνιν ποτε σχεΐν, ενθ* αν ώσι, τον βίου*
τοιν δ' άθλίαιν οίκτραΐν τε παρθένοιν εμαΐν,
olv ουποθ' η μη χωρίς έστάθη βοράς
τράπεζ* άνευ τουδ9 άνδρός, αλλ' οσων εγώ
ψαυοιμι, πάντων τώνδ' act μετειχέτην'

1465

οΓν μοι μέλεσθαι9 και μάλιστα μεν χεροΐν
ψαυσαί μ εασον κάποκλαυσασθαι κακά.
iff ώναξ,
W ώ yovrj γενναίε,

χψσί τάν θιγών

δοκοΐμ εχειν σφας, ώσπερ ηνίκ εβλεπον,
τί φημί;

1470

3§

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.
ANTIGONE and ISMENE are led in by attendants.

Ha? Ο ye gods, can it be my loved ones that
ου δη κλνω πον προς θεών τοΐν μοι φίλοιν
I hear sobbing,—can Creon have taken pity on me
8ακρνρροονντοιν, και μ εποικτείρας "Κρέων
and sent me my children—my darlings ? Am I
επεμψέ μοι τα φίλτατ έκγόνοιν έμοιν;
right ?
λέγω τι;
Cr. Yea: 'tis of my contriving, for I knew thy ΚΡ. λέγεις' €γω γαρ είμ ό πορσννας τάδε,
joy in them of old,—the joy that now is thine.
γνονς την παρονσαν τέρψιν, η σ ειχεν πάλαι.
Oe. Then blessed be thou, and, for guerdon of ΟΙ. αλλ' εντνχοίης, και σε τησδε της όδον
this errand, may heaven prove to thee a kinder
δαίμων άμεινον η *με φρονρησας τνχοι.
guardian than it hath to me! My children, where
ω τέκνα, πον ποτ Ιστέ; δ εν ρ ΐτ\ ελθετε
are ye ? Come hither,—hither to the hands of him
ως τάς άδελφάς τάσδε τάς εμάς χέρας,
whose mother was your own, the hands whose
cu τον φντονργον πατρός νμιν ώδ' ο ραν
offices have wrought that your sire's once bright
τα πρόσθε λαμπρά προνξένησαν όμματα*
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eyes should be such orbs as these,—his, who seeing
os νμιν, ω τεκν, ονυ ορων ονυ ιστορων
nought, knowing nought, became your father by
πατήρ έφάνθην evOev αντος ήρόθην.
her from whom he sprang! For you also do I
και σφω δακρνω* προσβλέττειν yap ον (τθένω'
weep—behold you I cannot—when I think of the
νοούμενος τά λοιπά τον πικροί) βίον,
bitter life in days to come which men will make
οιον βιωναι σφω. προς άνθρωπων χρεών.
you live. To what company of the citizens will
ποίας γάρ αστών η£ετ εις ομιλίας,
ye come, to what festival, but ye shall go home
ποίας δ εορτάς, ενθ εν ον κεκλανμέναι
bathed in tears, instead of sharing in the holiday ?
προς οίκον ΐέεσθ* άντι της θεωρίας;
But when ye are now come to years ripe for mar­
αλλ ηι/ίκ αν 8η προς γάμων ηκητ α κ μας,
riage, who shall he be, who shall be the man, my
τίς οντος εσται, τις παραρρίψει, τέκνα,
daughters, that will hazard taking unto him such
τοιαντ ονείδη λαμβάνων, α rats εμαΐς
reproaches as must be baneful alike to my offspring
γοναΐσιν εσται σφων 0* ομον δηλήματα;
and to yours ? For what misery is wanting ? Your
τί yap κακών άπεστι; τον πατέρα πατήρ
sire slew his sire, he had seed of her who bare
νμών επεφνε' την τεκονσαν ηροσεν,
him, and begat you at the sources of his own
οθεν περ αντος εσπάρη, κάκ τών ίσων
being! Such are the taunts that will be cast at
Ικτησαθ" νμάς ωνπερ αντος εξέφν.
you ; and who then will wed ? The man lives not;
τοιαντ ονειδιεΐσθε. κατα τίς γαμεΐ;
no, it cannot be, my children, but ye must wither
ονκ εστίν ονδείς, ω τέκν, άλλα δηλαδή
in barren maidenhood.
χέρσονς φθαρηναι κάγάμονς ν μας χρεών.
Ah, son of Menoeceus, hear me—since thou
ω παΐ Μενοικέως, αλλ' επει μόνος πατήρ
art the only father left to them,—for we, their
τοντοιν λέλειψαι, νώ γαρ, ώ 'φντενσαμεν,
parents, are lost, both of us;—allow them not to
όλώλαμεν δν' ο ντε, μη σφε περιίδης
wander poor and unwed, who are thy kinswomen,
πτωχάς άνάνδρονς εγγενείς άλωμένας,
nor abase them to the level of my woes. Nay,
μηδ* εξίσωσης τάσδε τοις εμοις κακοΐς.
pity them, when thou seest them, at this tender
αλλ' οικτισόν σφας, ωδε τηλικάσδ* ορών
age, so utterly forlorn, save for thee. Signify thy
πάντων ερημονς, πλην οσον το σον μέρος.
promise, generous man, by the touch of thy hand.
ζνννενσον, ω γενναίε, ση ψαν σας χερί.
To you, my children, I would have given much
σφων δ', ώ τέκν, εί μεν ειχέτην η δη φρένας,
counsel,· were your minds mature; but now I would
ττολλ' αν παρηνονν' ννν δε τοντ ενχεσθέ μοι,
have this to be your prayer—that ye live where
ον καιρός εα, ζην, τον βίον δε λωονος
occasion suffers, and that the life which is your
νμάς κνρησαι τον φντενσαντος πατρός.
portion may be happier than your sire's.
Cr. Thy grief hath had large scope enough : ΚΡ. άλις ιν εξηκεις δακρνων' αλλ' 101 στέγης έσω.
nay, pass into the house.
Oe. I must obey, though 'tis in no wise sweet. ΟΙ. πειστέον, κει μηδέν ηδν. ΚΡ. πάντα γάρ καιρώ
Cr. Yea: for it is in season that all things are
good.

1475

1480

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1485

1490

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isoo

1505

ίδιο

1515

καλά.

OEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

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Oe. Knowest thou, then, on what conditions I ΟΙ. οΐσθ* εφ' οΐς ovv ειμί; KP. λεξεις, και tot εΐσομαι
]
will go ? Cr. Thou shalt name them; so shall I
κλνων.
know them when I hear.
Oe. See that thou send me to dwell beyond 01. γης μ οπως πέμψεις άποικον. ΚΡ. τον θεοΰ μ
this land. Cr, Thou askest me for what the god
αΐτεΐς δόσιν.
must give.
Oe. Nay, to the gods I have become most ΟΙ* αλλά θεοΐς y εχθ ιστός ήκω. ΚΡ. τοιγαρουν τ εν ζει
hateful.
Cr. Then shalt thou have thy wish
τάχα.
anon.
Oe. So thou consentest? Cr. 'Tis not my 01. φής τάδ* ουν; ΚΡ. ά μή φρονώ γαρ ου φιλώ \eyeiv
μάτην.
1520
wont to say idly what I do not mean.
Oe. Then 'tis time to lead me hence. Cr. Come, ΟΙ. άπαγέ νυν μ ivTevOev ήδη. ΚΡ. στ€Ϊχ<ε νυν, τέκνων
δ* άφον.
then,—but let thy children go.
Oe. Nay, take not these from me ! Cr. Crave ΟΙ. μηδαμώς ταύτας γ* Ιλη μου. ΚΡ. πάντα μη βονλον
not to be master in all things: for the mastery
κρατεΐν'
which thou didst win hath not followed thee through
καϊ yap άκράτησας ου σοι τω βιω £ννέσπ€το.
life.
CREON

leads OEDIPUS into the palace, followed by ANTIGONE, ISMENE, the MESSENGER, and ATTENDANTS.

Ch. Dwellers in our native Thebes, behold, this
is Oedipus, who knew the famed riddle, and was a
man most mighty; on whose fortunes what citizen
did not gaze with envy ? Behold into what a stormy
sea of dread trouble he hath come!
Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined
final day, we must call no one happy who is of
mortal race, until he hath crossed life's border, free
from pain.

ττάτρας Θήβης ένοικοι, λα.'σσ€τ, Οιδίπους οδ€,
os τά κλείν* αίνίγματ ήδει και κράτιστός ην άνήρ,
ου τις ov ζήλω πολιτών ταΐς τνχαις επεβλεπεν,
€ΐς οσον κλύδωνα δεινής συμφοράς ελήλυθεν.
ωστ€ θνητδν οντ εκείνην την τελενταίαν ιδεΐν
ήμίραν επισκοπονντα μηδέν' ολβίζειν, πριν αν
τέρμα του βίου περάστ} μηδέν άλγεινον παθών.

XO. ώ

CAMBBIDQE ί PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. & SONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

1525

1530

ousts STANFORD
English Version by
A.W.VERRALL M.A.
Ent.Stat.Hall.

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Price 3/net.

CAMBRIDGE
Published for the Greek Play Committee.
1887.

OEDIPUS REX.

N? 1. Prelude.

C.V.Stanford, Op. 29.

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ACT Π.

8. Introduction to Act Π.

NV

Moderato.

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CHORAGUS.
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50

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if if if
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I ask thee
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... 'ερωτώ.

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thou beholdest.
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OEDIPUS.
accursed in the shed ding" of blood.
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τις γαρ, τις ά-νήρ πλέ - ον
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Where is such wretchedness, τίς α-ταις αγ - ρί-αις,_

l·

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Aft.
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βί -ου,·

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beneath thTin-covering; hand
δι - χα-ζει τον α-γα -μον

in-ten - ded crime is bare
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Tempo di Marcia, solenne e marcato.
^=&=ψ

MESSENGER.
Who abhors it must pity.
και στυγουντ έποικτίσαι.

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N? 16. Melodrama and Final Chorus.
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August 1887.

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