The Oedipus Tyrannus

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University Press, 1897 - 172 pages
 

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Page 58 - Yea, newly given from snowy Parnassus, the message hath flashed forth to make all search for the unknown man. Into the wild wood's covert, among caves and rocks he is roaming, fierce as a bull, wretched and forlorn on his joyless path, still seeking to put from him the doom spoken at Earth's central shrine: but that doom ever lives, ever flits around him.
Page 147 - ... qui quattuor ex rebus posse omnia rentur ex igni terra atque anima procrescere et imbri. 715 quorum Acragantinus cum primis Empedocles est...
Page 32 - Thou prayest: and in answer to thy prayer, — if thou wilt give a loyal welcome to my words and minister to thine own disease, — thou mayest hope to find succour and relief from woes. These words will I speak publicly, as one who has been a stranger to this report, a stranger to the deed ; for I should not be far on the track, if I were tracing it alone, without a clue.
Page x - Laius doubtless included the curse called down on La'ius by Pelops, when bereft by him of his son Chrysippus. The true climax of the Aeschylean Oedipus would thus have consisted, not in the discovery alone, but in the discovery followed by the curse. And we may safely infer that the process of discovery indicated in the Seven against Thebes by the words fVfl 8' dprtypw | cytvfTo...ydfi<av (778) was not comparable with that in the play of Sophocles.
Page vi - And I saw the mother of Oedipodes, fair Epicaste, who wrought a dread deed unwittingly, being wedded to her own son, and he that had slain his own father wedded her, and straightway the gods made these things known to men. Yet he abode in pain in pleasant Thebes, ruling the Cadmaeans, by reason of the deadly counsels of the gods. But she went down to the house of Hades, the...
Page 140 - Perish the man, whoe'er he was, that freed me in the pastures from the cruel shackle on my feet, and saved me from death, and gave me back to life, — a thankless deed ! Had I died then, to my friends and to thine own soul I had not been so sore a grief.

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