Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Oedipus: Lay the blind man's hand upon his poor sons' brows.

Antigone: There then! touch the dead, thy children.

Oedipus: Woe for you! dear fallen sons, sad offspring of a sire as
sad!

Antigone: O my brother Polyneices, name most dear to me!

Oedipus: Now is the oracle of Loxias being fulfilled, my child.

Antigone: What oracle was that? canst thou have further woes to tell?

Oedipus: That I should die in glorious Athens after a life of wandering.

Antigone: Where? what fenced town in Attica will take thee in?

Oedipus: Hallowed Colonus, home of the god of steeds. Come then, attend
on thy blind father, since thou art minded to share his exile. (Oedipus
and Antigone chant their remaining lines as they slowly depart.)

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