Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 2: The Oedipus at Colonus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889.

  1. For what?
Antigone
  1. To see the netherworld home.
Ismene.
  1. Of whom?
Antigone
  1. Wretched me! Of our father.
Ismene.
  1. And how can this be right?
  2. Surely you understand?
Antigone
  1. Why this rebuke?
Ismene.
  1. And surely you know this, too—
Antigone
  1. What more would you tell me?
Ismene
  1. That he perished without a tomb, apart from everyone.
Antigone
  1. Lead me there, and then kill me, too.
Ismene
  1. Unhappy me! Abandoned and helpless,
  2. where am I now to live my wretched life?
Chorus
  1. Dear girls, do not be afraid.
Antigone
  1. But where shall I flee?
Chorus
  1. Already a refuge has been found—
Oedipus
  1. What do you mean?
Chorus
  1. —That no harm befall you.
Antigone
  1. I feel—
Chorus
  1. What do you think?