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 46

Oedipus: Nay, when _I_ wished it _they_ would not consent.

Theseus: For shame! such temper misbecomes the faller.

Oedipus: Chide if thou wilt, but first attend my plea.

Theseus: Say on, I wait full knowledge ere I judge.

Oedipus: O Theseus, I have suffered wrongs on wrongs.

Theseus: Wouldst tell the old misfortune of thy race?

Oedipus: No, that has grown a byword throughout Greece.

Theseus: What then can be this more than mortal grief?

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