Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Creon: Here, not far away, but at thy side.

Teiresias: Let him retire far from my prophetic voice.

Creon: He is my own son and will preserve due silence.

Teiresias: Wilt thou then that I tell thee in his presence?

Creon: Yea, for he will rejoice to hear the means of safety.

Teiresias: Then hear the purport of my oracle, the which if ye observe
ye shall save the city of Cadmus. Thou must sacrifice Menoeceus thy
son here for thy country, since thine own lips demand the voice of
fate.

Creon: What mean'st thou? what is this thou hast said, old man?

Teiresias: To that which is to be thou also must conform.

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