| Brander Matthews - Drama - 1916 - 808 pages
...honored supremely, bearing sway in great Thebes. But now whose story is more grievous in men's ears? Who is a more wretched captive to fierce plagues and troubles, with all his life reversed? Alas, renowned CEdipus! The same bounteous place of rest sufficed thee, as child and as sire also, that thou shouldst... | |
| Brander Matthews - Drama - 1916 - 810 pages
...honored supremely, bearing sway in great Thebes. But now whose story is more grievous in nen's ears? Who is a more wretched captive to fierce plagues and troubles, with all his life reversed? Alas, renowned CEdipus! The same bounteous place of rest sufficed thee, as child and as sire also, that thou shouldst... | |
| Sophocles - 1928 - 400 pages
...supremely, bearing sway in great Thebes. But now whose story is more grievous in men's ttr. «. ears ? Who is a more wretched captive to fierce plagues and troubles,...with all his life reversed ? Alas, renowned Oedipus I The same bounteous place of rest sufficed thee, as child and as sire also, that thou shouldst make... | |
| Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 364 pages
...'tries.' Aesch. has another poet, use, Ag. 1411 {flou. — -уацоу iróXai TtKvovvra «al т«159 Who is a more wretched captive to fierce plagues and troubles,...all-seeing hath found thee out in thy despite : he jnd antijudgeth the monstrous marriage wherein begetter and begotten str°Pnehave long been one. Alas,... | |
| Sophocles - 1954 - 412 pages
...supremely, bearing sway in great Thebes. But now whose story is more grievous in men's str. ». ears ? Who is a more wretched captive to fierce plagues and troubles,...that thou shouldst make thereon thy nuptial couch. 1210 Oh, how can the soil wherein thy father sowed, unhappy one, have suffered thee in silence so long... | |
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