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. I lay it in yours.
Oedipus
  1. Strangers, let me not suffer wrong
  2. when I have trusted in you, and have passed from my refuge!
Chorus
  1. Never, old man, never will anyone remove you from your resting-place here against your will.
Oedipus
  1. Further, then?
Chorus
  1. Come still further.
Oedipus
  1. Further?
Chorus
  1. Lead him onward, maiden, for you hear us and obey.
Antigone
  1. ---
Oedipus
  1. ---
Antigone
  1. Come, follow this way with your dark steps, father, as I lead you.
Oedipus
  1. ---
Chorus
  1. Stranger in a foreign land,
  2. poor man, have the courage to detest what the city steadfastly holds as not dear, and to reverence what it holds dear!
Oedipus
  1. Lead me, then, child, to a spot where I may speak and listen within piety’s domain,
  2. and let us not wage war with necessity.
Chorus
  1. There! Do not incline your steps beyond that ledge of bedrock.
Oedipus
  1. This far?
Chorus
  1. Enough, I say
Oedipus
  1. Shall I sit down?