Euripides' PHOENISSAE Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Antigone: Offering homage that is no homage in Heaven's eyes to him
in whose honour I once fringed my dress with the Theban fawn-skin
and led the dance upon the hills for the holy choir of Semele?

Oedipus: My noble fellow-countrymen, behold me; I am Oedipus, who
solved the famous riddle, and once was first of men, I who alone cut
short the murderous Sphinx's tyranny am now myself expelled the land
in shame and misery. Go to; why make this moan and bootless lamentation?
Weak mortal as I am, I must endure the fate that God decrees.

Chorus: (chanting) Hail majestic Victory! keep thou my life nor ever
cease to crown my song!



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