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

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see this idiom in English. We may say to a friend:
"I see you travel in steamboats," when we only are
aware of his having been in one. Perhaps there is,
in this manner of speech, the expression of our conviction that, though only one be known, it is very
probable there are mzany of the objects, whatever they
may be.
367. —L,' EG K aKOV, literally, Wheare of evil you ar'e, i. e., in
what a state of misery you are.
368. —Let the student remark here how certain (Edipus
must have felt that Tiresias was uttering falsehood,
and therefore how natural in his violent language toward the old prophet.
369. —Eirep, (I do think so) if, etc.
372. —Ta'ra refers to blindness, physical and mental.
371. —T-_ v8E belongs to o.VELs.
37t4.-T-pEOcCLfT —-pcE, as in line 356 for E. ——. - VVKT0o;
by this is meant his blindness. -— s E and ab'Xov are
accusatives after f/SXiac. ---- cE understood is the
accusative before. - - ps is Continual.
377.-E-K7rpaaLt, To p2unish.
380.- TXV"7 TX'v-q v3rcEp'Povoua, Art excellin, (any other)
ar't. He probably refers to "the art of governing,"
though some would prefer referring it to "skill in
interpretation," as shown in the matter of the Sphynx.
382.r-o'ao,% Hozo nmuch. - -vX-cro(rETat, Is stored.
385. —6 wTorra,, J pXA3s 4(hos. This is not said in irony,
because (Edipus had actually believed him such.
386.- -7rEX,\v, a term taken from the games, where it was
applied to the wrestler when he stole under his adversary to overthrow him.
387.-V-koyov, Sor ce'ere; a disparaging word. In later times,
and among Orientals, it was an honorable term. See
Matthew ii. 1. The word is Persian.