Whence came it? was it thine, or given to thee? HERDSMAN I had it from another, 'twas not mine. O...
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Wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. Ah me, ah me! What spasms athwart me shoot, What ...
Where's the bold wooers who will jeopardize To take unto himself such disrepute As to my children'...
The shadow when I hold the substance fast. Now all men cry me Godspeed! wish me well, And every su...
How call you then the place wherein we bide? STRANGER Whate'er I know thou too shalt know; the pla...
OEDIPUS Methought I heard thee say that Laius Was murdered at the meeting of three roads. JOCASTA...
Strangers, I have no country. O forbear-- CHORUS What is it, old man, that thou wouldst conceal? ...
If sin like this to honor can aspire, Why dance I still and lead the sacred choir? (Ant. 2) No mo...
Are framed and modeled on Egyptian ways. For there the men sit at the loom indoors While the wives...
to us all, even as we ask! For the rest, though I be silent, I deem that thou, a god, must know it;...
Robbers, he told us, not one bandit but A troop of knaves, attacked and murdered him. OEDIPUS Did...
Alas indeed! for the murderess- ELECTRA Was slain. CHORUS Yea. ELECTRA I know it, I know it; f...
OEDIPUS Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds. CHORUS But here is one to arraign him. Lo,...
death! What mightst thou not have wrought? ELECTRA My nature was the same then, but my mind less r...
TEIRESIAS This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave. OEDIPUS Thou lov'st to speak in riddles...