2. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101, 1012-1013, 1016-1019, 102, 1020, 103, 1032, 1036, 104-106, 1068, 107, 1071-1075, 1080-1082, 1092, 110, 1105-1107, 111, 1129-1131, 1133-1139, 114-115, 1169-1170, 1177-1181, 1184-1185, 1223-1296, 139-146, 288-289, 298-304, 307, 312-313, 316-317, 320-321, 324-402, 532-630, 711-714, 787-789, 825-826, 85, 863-869, 87, 870-879, 88, 880-909, 91, 910-919, 92, 920-923, 928, 95, 953, 96, 964-969, 97, 970-972, 98-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 100. OIDIPUS:Speak before all; the burden that I bear Is more for these my subjects than myself. CREON: Let me report then all the god declared. King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate A fell pollution that infests the land, And no more harbor an inveterate sore. OIDIPUS:What expiation means he? What's amiss? CREON: Banishment, or the shedding blood for blood. This stain of blood makes shipwreck of our state. OIDIPUS:Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced? CREON: Before thou didst assume the helm of State, The sovereign of this land was Laius. OIDIPUS:I heard as much, but never saw the man. CREON: He fell; and now the god's command is plain: Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be. OIDIPUS:Where are they? Where in the wide world to find The far, faint traces of a bygone crime? CREON: In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind." OIDIPUS:Was he within his palace, or afield 100. By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipu |
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3. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 538, 552-553, 555-581, 584-587, 623, 629-630, 537 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 537. and partly to grieve over my sufferings in your company. I have received a maiden—or, I believe, no longer a maiden, but an experienced woman—into my home, just as a mariner takes on cargo, a merchandise to wreck my peace of mind. And now we are two, a pair waiting under |
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