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. B |