The OEdipus tyrannus of Sophocles; with English notes ... By Howard Crosby ...

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ditional clause; thus, Thou wilt not appear base, though
I ap2pear trebly a slave, a slave from the third generation (n / rpuL'rs pqTpOS).- OIEdipus thinks that Jocasta's repugnance to carry the search farther arises
from fear of exposing his ignoble birth.
1067. —ra Xw^oca ot&vv TarTa K.T.X., They are these very
best things (which thou speakest of), i. e., silence regarding the discovery of his birth, that have been Any
trouble.
1070. —Tavj'v, a slurring manner of referring to Jocasta.
1071. —troro JOVOV refers to the word vOrqWVE. Argument
and entreaty were useless. She could only call him
"' wretched."
1073. —ypLaa% wild, i. e., uncontrollable. — O18Trovs is
here used for W O8gi7rov. Indeed the vocative may be
considered a shortened nominative, and here it resumes, (for the verse's sake,) its original length.
1075.-C-K ds 7 (r10) s TAeC, i. e., the silence caused upon
Jocasta's departure, for she had left after her last
address to (Edipus.
1076. —o&roa XPJe" r'Tyv w, Let turn out what will.
1077.-oarE'plJa, Birth. -- /fovXA iooat, not (as some say)
for fovAXotat. The future meaning is thus seen, "I
have wished and will still continue to wish."
1078. —povet, like our " she feels."
1082. —rs, as Tavr -. ---- rvOyyEves. Supply?T' TjX5/.
The " months" (by which is meant " time") are called
the kindred of Fortune, from their uncertainty.
1084. —e'3oLou, Come out, i. e., " show myself to be"
another than Fortune's, son.
1086.-The Chorus interpose their belief that CEditus will
be found to be a son of some nymph of Mount
Cithkeron.
1088. —irv "OXv/rrov, as /a -rv "OXv/7xrov.