| Φοίνισσαν βοὰν | Maidens, I hear your Phoenician voice, and my old feet drag their tottering steps. O my son |
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| κλύους', ὦ νεάνιδες, γηραιὸν | Maidens, I hear your Phoenician voice, and my old feet drag their tottering steps. O my son |
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| πόδ' ἕλκω, τρομερὰν βάσιν: ἰὼ τέκνον | Maidens, I hear your Phoenician voice, and my old feet drag their tottering steps. O my son |
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| nan | Maidens, I hear your Phoenician voice, and my old feet drag their tottering steps. O my son |
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| χρόνῳ σὸν ὄμμα μυρίαις τ' ἐν ἁμέραις | at last after countless days I see your face; throw your arms about your mother’s breast, stretch out to me your cheeks and the dark, curly locks of your hair, overshadowing my neck. |
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| προσεῖδον: ἀμφίβαλλε μα- | at last after countless days I see your face; throw your arms about your mother’s breast, stretch out to me your cheeks and the dark, curly locks of your hair, overshadowing my neck. |
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| στὸν ὠλέναισι ματέρος | at last after countless days I see your face; throw your arms about your mother’s breast, stretch out to me your cheeks and the dark, curly locks of your hair, overshadowing my neck. |
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| παρηίδων τ' ὄρεγμα βο- | at last after countless days I see your face; throw your arms about your mother’s breast, stretch out to me your cheeks and the dark, curly locks of your hair, overshadowing my neck. |
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| στρύχων τε κυανόχρωτα χαί- | at last after countless days I see your face; throw your arms about your mother’s breast, stretch out to me your cheeks and the dark, curly locks of your hair, overshadowing my neck. |
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| τας πλόκαμον, δέραν σκιάζων ἁμάν. | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| ἰὼ ἰώ, μόλις φανεὶς | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| ἄελπτα κἀδόκητα ματρὸς ὠλέναις. | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| τί φῶ σε; πῶς ἅπαντα | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| καὶ χερσὶ καὶ λόγοισι | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| πολυέλικτον ἁδονὰν | Hail to you! all hail! scarcely here in your mother’s arms, beyond hope and expectation. What can I say to you? How in every way, by hands, by words, in the mazy delight |
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| ἐκεῖσε καὶ τὸ δεῦρο | of the dance, shall I find the pleasure of my former joy? Ah! my son, you left your father’s house desolate, when your brother’s outrage drove you away in exile. |
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| περιχορεύουσα τέρψιν παλαιᾶν λάβω | of the dance, shall I find the pleasure of my former joy? Ah! my son, you left your father’s house desolate, when your brother’s outrage drove you away in exile. |
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| χαρμονᾶν; ἰὼ τέκος | of the dance, shall I find the pleasure of my former joy? Ah! my son, you left your father’s house desolate, when your brother’s outrage drove you away in exile. |
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| ἔρημον πατρῷον ἔλιπες δόμον | of the dance, shall I find the pleasure of my former joy? Ah! my son, you left your father’s house desolate, when your brother’s outrage drove you away in exile. |
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| φυγὰς ἀποσταλεὶς ὁμαίμου λώβᾳ | of the dance, shall I find the pleasure of my former joy? Ah! my son, you left your father’s house desolate, when your brother’s outrage drove you away in exile. |
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| ἦ ποθεινὸς φίλοις | Truly you were missed alike by your friends and Thebes . And so I cut my white hair and let it fall for grief, in tears, not clad in robes of white, my son |
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| ἦ ποθεινὸς Θήβαις. | Truly you were missed alike by your friends and Thebes . And so I cut my white hair and let it fall for grief, in tears, not clad in robes of white, my son |
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| ὅθεν ἐμάν τε λευκόχροα κείρομαι | Truly you were missed alike by your friends and Thebes . And so I cut my white hair and let it fall for grief, in tears, not clad in robes of white, my son |
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| δακρυόεσς' ἀνεῖσα πένθει κόμαν | Truly you were missed alike by your friends and Thebes . And so I cut my white hair and let it fall for grief, in tears, not clad in robes of white, my son |
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| ἄπεπλος φαρέων λευκῶν, ὦ τέκνον | Truly you were missed alike by your friends and Thebes . And so I cut my white hair and let it fall for grief, in tears, not clad in robes of white, my son |
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| δυσόρφναια δ' ἀμφὶ τρύχη τάδε | but taking instead these dark rags. |
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| σκότι' ἀμείβομαι. | but taking instead these dark rags. |
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| ὁ δ' ἐν δόμοισι πρέσβυς ὀμματοστερὴς | While in the house the old blind man, always possessed by his tearful longing for the pair of brothers estranged from the home |
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| ἀπήνας ὁμοπτέρου τᾶς ἀπο- | While in the house the old blind man, always possessed by his tearful longing for the pair of brothers estranged from the home |
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| ζυγείσας δόμων | While in the house the old blind man, always possessed by his tearful longing for the pair of brothers estranged from the home |
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| πόθον ἀμφιδάκρυτον ἀεὶ κατ- | rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons; |
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| έχων ἀνῇξε μὲν ξίφους | rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons; |
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| ἐπ' αὐτόχειρά τε σφαγάν | rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons; |
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| ὑπὲρ τέραμνά τ' ἀγχόνας | rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons; |
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| στενάζων ἀρὰς τέκνοις: | rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons; |
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| σὺν ἀλαλαῖσι δ' αἰὲν αἰαγμάτων | and now he hides himself in darkness, always weeping and lamenting. And you, my child, I hear you have married and are begetting children to your joy in a foreign home |
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| σκότια κρύπτεται. | and now he hides himself in darkness, always weeping and lamenting. And you, my child, I hear you have married and are begetting children to your joy in a foreign home |
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| σὲ δ', ὦ τέκνον, καὶ γάμοισι δὴ | and now he hides himself in darkness, always weeping and lamenting. And you, my child, I hear you have married and are begetting children to your joy in a foreign home |
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| κλύω ζυγέντα παιδοποιὸν ἁδονὰν | and now he hides himself in darkness, always weeping and lamenting. And you, my child, I hear you have married and are begetting children to your joy in a foreign home |
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| ξένοισιν ἐν δόμοις ἔχειν | and now he hides himself in darkness, always weeping and lamenting. And you, my child, I hear you have married and are begetting children to your joy in a foreign home |
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| ξένον τε κῆδος ἀμφέπειν | and are courting a foreign alliance, a ceaseless regret to me your mother and to Laius your ancestor, ruin brought by your marriage. I was not the one who lit for you the marriage-torch |
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| ἄλαστα ματρὶ τᾷδε Λα- | and are courting a foreign alliance, a ceaseless regret to me your mother and to Laius your ancestor, ruin brought by your marriage. I was not the one who lit for you the marriage-torch |
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| ίῳ τε τῷ παλαιγενεῖ | and are courting a foreign alliance, a ceaseless regret to me your mother and to Laius your ancestor, ruin brought by your marriage. I was not the one who lit for you the marriage-torch |
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| γάμων ἐπακτὸν ἄταν. | and are courting a foreign alliance, a ceaseless regret to me your mother and to Laius your ancestor, ruin brought by your marriage. I was not the one who lit for you the marriage-torch |
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| ἐγὼ δ' οὔτε σοι πυρὸς ἀνῆψα φῶς | and are courting a foreign alliance, a ceaseless regret to me your mother and to Laius your ancestor, ruin brought by your marriage. I was not the one who lit for you the marriage-torch |
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| νόμιμον ἐν γάμοις | the custom in marriage for a happy mother; Ismenus had no part at your wedding in supplying the luxurious bath, and there was silence through the streets of Thebes , at the entrance of your bride. |
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| ὡς πρέπει ματέρι μακαρίᾳ: | the custom in marriage for a happy mother; Ismenus had no part at your wedding in supplying the luxurious bath, and there was silence through the streets of Thebes , at the entrance of your bride. |
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| ἀνυμέναια δ' ̓Ισμηνὸς ἐκηδεύθη | the custom in marriage for a happy mother; Ismenus had no part at your wedding in supplying the luxurious bath, and there was silence through the streets of Thebes , at the entrance of your bride. |
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| λουτροφόρου χλιδᾶς, ἀνὰ δὲ Θηβαίαν | the custom in marriage for a happy mother; Ismenus had no part at your wedding in supplying the luxurious bath, and there was silence through the streets of Thebes , at the entrance of your bride. |
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| πόλιν ἐσιγάθη σᾶς ἔσοδοι νύμφας. | the custom in marriage for a happy mother; Ismenus had no part at your wedding in supplying the luxurious bath, and there was silence through the streets of Thebes , at the entrance of your bride. |
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| ὄλοιτο, τάδ' εἴτε σίδαρος | Curses on them! whether the sword or strife or your father that is to blame, or heaven’s visitation that has burst riotously upon the house of Oedipus; for on me has come all the anguish of these evils. Chorus Leader |
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| εἴτ' ἔρις εἴτε πατὴρ ὁ σὸς αἴτιος | Curses on them! whether the sword or strife or your father that is to blame, or heaven’s visitation that has burst riotously upon the house of Oedipus; for on me has come all the anguish of these evils. Chorus Leader |
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| εἴτε τὸ δαιμόνιον κατεκώμασε | Curses on them! whether the sword or strife or your father that is to blame, or heaven’s visitation that has burst riotously upon the house of Oedipus; for on me has come all the anguish of these evils. Chorus Leader |
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| δώμασιν Οἰδιπόδα: | Curses on them! whether the sword or strife or your father that is to blame, or heaven’s visitation that has burst riotously upon the house of Oedipus; for on me has come all the anguish of these evils. Chorus Leader |
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| πρὸς ἐμὲ γὰρ κακῶν ἔμολε τῶνδ' ἄχη. | Curses on them! whether the sword or strife or your father that is to blame, or heaven’s visitation that has burst riotously upon the house of Oedipus; for on me has come all the anguish of these evils. Chorus Leader |
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