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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ὦ φίλτατοι γέροντες, ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐμοὶ
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φαίνοιτʼ ἂν ἤδη τέρμα τῆς σωτηρίας.
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Χορός
θάρσει, παρέσται· καὶ γὰρ εἰ γέρων ἐγώ,
τὸ τῆσδε χώρας οὐ γεγήρακεν σθένος.
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Κρέων
ἄνδρες χθονὸς τῆσδʼ εὐγενεῖς οἰκήτορες,
ὁρῶ τινʼ ὑμᾶς ὀμμάτων εἰληφότας
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φόβον νεώρη τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπεισόδου,
ὃν μήτʼ ὀκνεῖτε μήτʼ ἀφῆτʼ ἔπος κακόν.
ἥκω γὰρ οὐχ ὡς δρᾶν τι βουληθείς, ἐπεὶ
γέρων μέν εἰμι, πρὸς πόλιν δʼ ἐπίσταμαι
σθένουσαν ἥκων, εἴ τινʼ Ἑλλάδος, μέγα.
735
ἀλλʼ ἄνδρα τόνδε τηλικόσδʼ ἀπεστάλην
πείσων ἕπεσθαι πρὸς τὸ Καδμείων πέδον,
οὐκ ἐξ ἑνὸς στείλαντος, ἀλλʼ ἀνδρῶν ὑπὸ
πάντων κελευσθείς, οὕνεχʼ ἧκέ μοι γένει
τὰ τοῦδε πενθεῖν πήματʼ εἰς πλεῖστον πόλεως.
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ἀλλʼ ὦ ταλαίπωρʼ Οἰδίπους, κλύων ἐμοῦ
ἱκοῦ πρὸς οἴκους. πᾶς σε Καδμείων λεὼς
καλεῖ δικαίως, ἐκ δὲ τῶν μάλιστʼ ἐγώ,
ὅσῳπερ, εἰ μὴ πλεῖστον ἀνθρώπων ἔφυν
κάκιστος, ἀλγῶ τοῖσι σοῖς κακοῖς, γέρον,
745
ὁρῶν σε τὸν δύστηνον ὄντα μὲν ξένον,
ἀεὶ δʼ ἀλήτην κἀπὶ προσπόλου μιᾶς
βιοστερῆ χωροῦντα· τὴν ἐγὼ τάλας
οὐκ ἄν ποτʼ ἐς τοσοῦτον αἰκίας πεσεῖν
ἔδοξʼ, ὅσον πέπτωκεν ἥδε δύσμορος,
750
ἀεί σε κηδεύουσα καὶ τὸ σὸν κάρα
πτωχῷ διαίτῃ, τηλικοῦτος, οὐ γάμων
ἔμπειρος, ἀλλὰ τοὐπιόντος ἁρπάσαι.
ἆρʼ ἄθλιον τοὔνειδος, ὦ τάλας ἐγώ,
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