Sophocles' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Complete

Translated by F. Storr. From the Loeb Library Edition, Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London. First published in 1912.

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Page 31

Oedipus: And who hath told thee what thou tell'st me, child?

Ismene: Envoys who visited the Delphic hearth.

Oedipus: Hath Phoebus spoken thus concerning me?

Ismene: So say the envoys who returned to Thebes.

Oedipus: And can a son of mine have heard of this?

Ismene: Yea, both alike, and know its import well.

Oedipus: They knew it, yet the ignoble greed of rule
Outweighed all longing for their sire's return.

Ismene: Grievous thy words, yet I must own them true.

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