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. Your strength and ours will soon come to the test.
Creon
  1. Stand back!
Chorus
  1. Not while this is your purpose.
Creon
  1. There will be war with Thebes for you, if you harm me.
Oedipus
  1. Did I not say so?
Chorus
  1. Unhand the girl at once!
Creon
  1. Do not make commands where you are not the master.
Chorus
  1. Let go, I tell you!
Creon
  1. And I tell you: be off!
Chorus
  1. Help, men of Colonus, bring help! The city, our city, is attacked by force! Come to our aid!
Antigone
  1. I am being dragged away in misery. Strangers, strangers!
Oedipus
  1. My child, where are you?
Antigone
  1. I am led off by force.
Oedipus
  1. Give me your hand, my child!
Antigone
  1. I am helpless.
Creon
  1. Away with you!
Oedipus
  1. I am wretched, wretched!The guards exit with Antigone.
Creon
  1. So those two staffs will never again support your path.
  2. But since you wish to overcome your country and your friends, whose will I, though tyrant as well, am here discharging, then I wish you victory. For in time, I am sure, you will come to recognize all this, that now too as in time past, it is you who have done yourself no good, by indulging your anger despite your friends.
  3. This has always been your ruin.