Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles, creator; Sophocles with an English translation Vol 1. Storr, Francis, 1839-1919, editor, translator. London, New York: William Heinemann Ltd., The Macmillan Company, 1912.
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πρὸς δίκας τι.
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Χορός
τί γάρ;
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Οἰδίπους
ἐγὼ φράσω.
καὶ γὰρ ἄν, οὓς ἐφόνευσʼ, ἔμʼ ἀπώλεσαν·
νόμῳ δὲ καθαρός, ἄϊδρις εἰς τόδʼ ἦλθον.
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Χορός
καὶ μὴν ἄναξ ὅδʼ ἡμὶν Αἰγέως γόνος
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Θησεὺς κατʼ ὀμφὴν σὴν ἐφʼ ἁστάλη πάρα.
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Θησεύς
πολλῶν ἀκούων ἔν τε τῷ πάρος χρόνῳ
τὰς αἱματηρὰς ὀμμάτων διαφθορὰς
ἔγνωκά σʼ, ὦ παῖ Λαΐου, τανῦν θʼ ὁδοῖς
ἐν ταῖσδʼ ἀκούων μᾶλλον ἐξεπίσταμαι.
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σκευή τε γάρ σε καὶ τὸ δύστηνον κάρα
δηλοῦτον ἡμῖν ὄνθʼ ὃς εἶ, καί σʼ οἰκτίσας
θέλω ʼπερέσθαι, δύσμορʼ Οἰδίπους, τίνα
πόλεως ἐπέστης προστροπὴν ἐμοῦ τʼ ἔχων,
αὐτός τε χἠ σὴ δύσμορος παραστάτις.
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δίδασκε· δεινὴν γάρ τινʼ ἂν πρᾶξιν τύχοις
λέξας ὁποίας ἐξαφισταίμην ἐγώ,
ὃς οἶδα καὐτὸς ὡς ἐπαιδεύθην ξένος,
ὥσπερ σύ, χὢς εἷς πλεῖστʼ ἀνὴρ ἐπὶ ξένης
ἤθλησα κινδυνεύματʼ ἐν τὠμῷ κάρᾳ·
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ὥστε ξένον γʼ ἂν οὐδένʼ ὄνθʼ, ὥσπερ σὺ νῦν,
ὑπεκτραποίμην μὴ οὐ συνεκσῴζειν· ἐπεὶ
ἔξοιδʼ ἀνὴρ ὢν χὤτι τῆς εἰς αὔριον
οὐδὲν πλέον μοι σοῦ μέτεστιν ἡμέρας.
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Οἰδίπους
Θησεῦ, τὸ σὸν γενναῖον ἐν σμικρῷ λόγῳ
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παρῆκεν, ὥστε βραχέα μοι δεῖσθαι φράσαι.
σὺ γάρ μʼ ὅς εἰμι κἀφʼ ὅτου πατρὸς γεγὼς
καὶ γῆς ὁποίας ἦλθον, εἰρηκὼς κυρεῖς·
ὥστʼ ἐστί μοι τὸ λοιπὸν οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν
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