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CEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

CEDIPUS.

PRIEST.

CREON.

CHORUS OF AGED THEBANS.

TIRESIAS.

JOCASTA.

MESSENGER.

SERVANT OF LAIUS.

MESSENGER EXTRAORDINARY.

a Arrian, ap. Stob. S. 97. 28. hints that both the Edipi were personated by Polus, a distinguished actor, of whom Gellius makes mention, 7. 5.

CEDIPUS TYRANNUS.

CEDIPUS.

My children, youthful brood of Cadmus the ancient, what can be [the meaning of] these sittings ye are hurryinga here before me, decorated with supplicatory branches? whilst the city is at the same time fullfraught with incense-offerings, and at the same time with both pæan-hymns and groanings. All which, I thinking it my duty to decline hearing from messengers', my children, have in person come hither; I, Edipus, titled by all the Illustrious. But, O aged man, say, since it naturally becomes thee to speak on behalf of these, in what mood ye stand affected; by fears, or by earnest wishes; since I would willingly

a Ooá, like the word by which it is here rendered, is both transitive and intransitive.

"Awv övтwv ȧyyéλwv is Erfurdt's interpretation; but Elmsley, unus omnium diligentissimus Attici sermonis scrutator, makes aλwv redundant. c From the position of não it might not be improper to translate "the all-illustrious," with a construction like that of v. 40. See also Ed. Col.

1446.

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