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{t:"Oedipus at Colonus",p:2,x:208,y:464,w:576,h:71},
{t:"by Sophocles",p:2,x:301,y:538,w:388,h:71},
{t:"translated by",p:2,x:378,y:629,w:234,h:43},
{t:"Colin John Holcombe",p:2,x:302,y:692,w:386,h:43},
{t:"Ocaso Press 2008",p:2,x:357,y:755,w:276,h:39},
{t:"1",p:3,x:490,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"Sopho cles’s Oedi",p:3,x:94,y:128,w:235,h:31},
{t:"pus at ",p:3,x:353,y:128,w:87,h:31},
{t:"Colonus",p:3,x:455,y:128,w:105,h:31},
{t:"a new ",p:3,x:94,y:208,w:89,h:31},
{t:"transl ation by Coli",p:3,x:197,y:208,w:244,h:31},
{t:"n John Ho",p:3,x:469,y:208,w:130,h:31},
{t:"lcombe",p:3,x:618,y:208,w:103,h:31},
{t:"© Ocaso Pre",p:3,x:94,y:298,w:163,h:31},
{t:"ss 2008",p:3,x:279,y:298,w:87,h:31},
{t:"Published by Ocaso Press Ltda.",p:3,x:94,y:503,w:338,h:26},
{t:"Santiago, Chile. All rights reserved.",p:3,x:94,y:555,w:386,h:26},
{t:"The translation may be freely used for commercial and amateur productions",p:3,x:94,y:658,w:803,h:26},
{t:"provided the translator is acknowledged in any accompanying brochure,",p:3,x:94,y:689,w:803,h:26},
{t:"programme and/or handbill.",p:3,x:94,y:721,w:307,h:26},
{t:"Contents",p:4,x:89,y:121,w:137,h:37},
{t:"1. Introduction",p:4,x:89,y:204,w:162,h:26},
{t:"1",p:4,x:749,y:204,w:13,h:26},
{t:"2. Translation",p:4,x:89,y:255,w:149,h:26},
{t:"3",p:4,x:749,y:255,w:13,h:26},
{t:" Part One:  ",p:4,x:120,y:287,w:142,h:26},
{t:"lines 1-253",p:4,x:269,y:287,w:121,h:26},
{t:"4",p:4,x:749,y:287,w:13,h:26},
{t:" Part Two:  ",p:4,x:119,y:319,w:142,h:26},
{t:"lines 254-719",p:4,x:269,y:319,w:149,h:26},
{t:"19",p:4,x:749,y:319,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Part Three:  lines 720-1095",p:4,x:127,y:350,w:304,h:26},
{t:"45",p:4,x:749,y:350,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Part Four:  lines 1096-1248",p:4,x:127,y:382,w:318,h:26},
{t:"63",p:4,x:749,y:382,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Part Five:  ",p:4,x:127,y:414,w:134,h:26},
{t:"lines 1249-1578",p:4,x:269,y:414,w:176,h:26},
{t:"71",p:4,x:749,y:414,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Part Six :  ",p:4,x:127,y:445,w:133,h:26},
{t:"lines 1579-1779",p:4,x:269,y:445,w:176,h:26},
{t:"85",p:4,x:749,y:445,w:27,h:26},
{t:"3. Note on the Translation",p:4,x:89,y:497,w:283,h:26},
{t:"96",p:4,x:749,y:497,w:27,h:26},
{t:"4. Glossary",p:4,x:89,y:560,w:122,h:26},
{t:"104",p:4,x:749,y:560,w:41,h:26},
{t:"5. References",p:4,x:89,y:624,w:148,h:26},
{t:"107",p:4,x:749,y:624,w:41,h:26},
{t:"1",p:5,x:488,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"INTRODU CTION",p:5,x:89,y:114,w:218,h:31},
{t:"Oedipus at Colonus was the last play Sophocles wrote, and was not",p:5,x:89,y:164,w:807,h:26},
{t:"performed until BC 401, four years  after his death. The Athens that",p:5,x:89,y:195,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Sophocles had known through its period of greatness — Salamis, Delian",p:5,x:89,y:227,w:807,h:26},
{t:"League, the Athenian Empire — was no more: the Second Peloponnesian",p:5,x:89,y:259,w:808,h:26},
{t:"War had ended with the defeat of Athens and an imposed dictatorship.",p:5,x:89,y:290,w:807,h:26},
{t:"When the play opens, Oedipus is also a shadow of his former self: the great",p:5,x:89,y:322,w:808,h:26},
{t:"king of Thebes who blinded himself on discovering his true identity has been",p:5,x:89,y:354,w:808,h:26},
{t:"wandering for twenty years, an outcast begging for food, now led by his",p:5,x:89,y:385,w:808,h:26},
{t:"daughter Antigone. He comes to Colonus as a defeated man, anxious to",p:5,x:89,y:417,w:809,h:26},
{t:"abide by local customs and receive food and shelter. An outcast he remains",p:5,x:89,y:449,w:807,h:26},
{t:"throughout the play, but one that gradually grows in stature as he",p:5,x:89,y:480,w:807,h:26},
{t:"recognizes the old prophecies are coming true. He will die in the grove of",p:5,x:89,y:512,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the Eumenides. His death will bring rewards to the land that takes him in.",p:5,x:89,y:544,w:808,h:26},
{t:"The sons that disinherited him will both die in their struggle for the throne",p:5,x:89,y:575,w:808,h:26},
{t:"of Thebes. Oedipus is a fierce and angry character, and grows more so as",p:5,x:89,y:607,w:808,h:26},
{t:"he comes to see the part the gods have prepared him to play.1",p:5,x:89,y:636,w:684,h:28},
{t:"The play concerns suffering, therefore, but not redemption. Oedipus’s tomb",p:5,x:89,y:690,w:808,h:26},
{t:"will safeguard Athens, but the gods are always inscrutable, and misfortune",p:5,x:89,y:722,w:808,h:26},
{t:"can strike the most upright of characters. His independent daughter",p:5,x:89,y:754,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Antigone has given her word to Polyneices, and at Thebes will be sentenced",p:5,x:89,y:785,w:808,h:26},
{t:"to death for defying Creon. Polyneices is locked into his struggle with",p:5,x:89,y:817,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Eteocles, and neither can give way. Even the smooth-talking Creon has his",p:5,x:89,y:849,w:808,h:26},
{t:"commission to fulfil, and acts as the capable administrator, though",p:5,x:89,y:880,w:807,h:26},
{t:"treacherous and high-handed in going about the State’s business. Theseus",p:5,x:89,y:912,w:808,h:26},
{t:"represents Athens’ bravery and love of justice, but is a man, as all Athens",p:5,x:89,y:944,w:808,h:26},
{t:"knew, capable of deceit in his innumerable liaisons.",p:5,x:89,y:975,w:559,h:26},
{t:"The play is not realistic in our sense of the word. Attic tragedy employed",p:5,x:89,y:1027,w:807,h:26},
{t:"only a small number of actors, and these wore masks. The dialogue is",p:5,x:89,y:1059,w:808,h:26},
{t:"interwoven with passages of poetry, music, singing and probably dance. We",p:5,x:89,y:1090,w:808,h:26},
{t:"can imagine how impressive the spectacle must have been, but have few",p:5,x:89,y:1122,w:807,h:26},
{t:"details. The play is in verse, in places of a very high order, with several of",p:5,x:89,y:1154,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the choral pieces among the most famous of Greek poetry. I have tried in",p:5,x:89,y:1185,w:808,h:26},
{t:"this translation to return attention to the verse, using rhyme to shape the",p:5,x:89,y:1217,w:808,h:26},
{t:"formal but plain nature of Sophocles’s text. For the same reason, the",p:5,x:89,y:1249,w:810,h:26},
{t:"2",p:6,x:493,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"translation preserves the line numbering and verse structure of the original.",p:6,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"3",p:7,x:488,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS AT COLONUS",p:7,x:89,y:121,w:337,h:37},
{t:"Characters",p:7,x:89,y:255,w:117,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus, formerly King of Thebes",p:7,x:89,y:307,w:364,h:26},
{t:"Antigone, daughter of Oedipus",p:7,x:89,y:359,w:333,h:26},
{t:"Ismene, daughter of Oedipus",p:7,x:89,y:410,w:318,h:26},
{t:"A man of Colonus",p:7,x:89,y:462,w:192,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, King of Athens",p:7,x:89,y:514,w:262,h:26},
{t:"Polyneices, elder son of Oedipus",p:7,x:89,y:565,w:352,h:26},
{t:"A messenger",p:7,x:89,y:617,w:141,h:26},
{t:"Chorus of Elders of Colonus",p:7,x:89,y:669,w:300,h:26},
{t:"Scene",p:7,x:89,y:752,w:65,h:26},
{t:"Colonus, a spot a mile and a quarter north-west of Athens, in front of a",p:7,x:89,y:804,w:777,h:26},
{t:"grove sacred to the Erinyes or Furies, here worshipped under the name",p:7,x:89,y:835,w:778,h:26},
{t:"of Eumenides or Kindly Powers.",p:7,x:89,y:867,w:343,h:26},
{t:"Time",p:7,x:89,y:950,w:53,h:26},
{t:"Afternoon, some twenty years after the actions of Oedipus at Thebes.",p:7,x:89,y:1002,w:758,h:26},
{t:"4",p:8,x:493,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"PART ONE: ",p:8,x:94,y:114,w:146,h:31},
{t:"PROLOGOS (Open",p:8,x:257,y:114,w:261,h:31},
{t:"ing o f Play)",p:8,x:529,y:114,w:155,h:31},
{t:"Oedipus, a blind beggar, enters stage right, led by Antigone.",p:8,x:94,y:215,w:661,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:8,x:94,y:267,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What land or city now, Antigone?",p:8,x:94,y:319,w:360,h:26},
{t:"Come tell your old blind father what you see.",p:8,x:94,y:350,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Who’ll take in wandering Oedipus and give",p:8,x:94,y:382,w:464,h:26},
{t:"the little that he begs for so he live?",p:8,x:94,y:414,w:394,h:26},
{t:"Or less than that will do: the years have brought",p:8,x:94,y:445,w:530,h:26},
{t:"acceptance of his sufferings, as they ought.",p:8,x:94,y:477,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Long roads and hardship are his friends on earth",p:8,x:94,y:509,w:530,h:26},
{t:"who had nobility in royal birth.",p:8,x:94,y:540,w:334,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps now, child, you see some resting-place,",p:8,x:94,y:572,w:526,h:26},
{t:"10. some grove or common ground where we may face",p:8,x:94,y:604,w:604,h:26},
{t:"the probing questions there are sure to be.",p:8,x:94,y:635,w:469,h:26},
{t:"We come as strangers here, and scrupulously",p:8,x:94,y:667,w:495,h:26},
{t:"must show a deference to local powers.",p:8,x:94,y:699,w:431,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:8,x:94,y:750,w:116,h:26},
{t:"My careworn father, Oedipus, the towers",p:8,x:94,y:802,w:444,h:26},
{t:"that guard the city seem but distant still,",p:8,x:94,y:834,w:445,h:26},
{t:"a long way off from us, but here we will",p:8,x:94,y:865,w:432,h:26},
{t:"sit down and rest in what is holy ground",p:8,x:94,y:897,w:437,h:26},
{t:"with vine and olive, laurel and the sound",p:8,x:94,y:929,w:443,h:26},
{t:"of the sweet nightingale singing. Now on",p:8,x:94,y:960,w:443,h:26},
{t:"20. this rough rock rest for such a long way gone.",p:8,x:94,y:992,w:545,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:8,x:94,y:1044,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Guide, but do not leave me on my own.",p:8,x:94,y:1095,w:433,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:8,x:94,y:1147,w:116,h:26},
{t:"As always, father, as the years have shown.",p:8,x:94,y:1199,w:479,h:26},
{t:"5",p:9,x:488,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:9,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So tell me, if you know, the place we’re at.",p:9,x:89,y:135,w:469,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:9,x:89,y:187,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Athens I recognize: no more than that.",p:9,x:89,y:239,w:425,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:9,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So passers-by have said, in any case.",p:9,x:89,y:342,w:410,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:9,x:89,y:394,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Shall I go on and ask about this place?",p:9,x:89,y:445,w:423,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:9,x:89,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Yes, do, and ask if there be people here.",p:9,x:89,y:549,w:442,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:9,x:89,y:600,w:116,h:26},
{t:"There is no need. I see their houses. Near",p:9,x:89,y:652,w:457,h:26},
{t:"is someone, father, who acknowledges.",p:9,x:89,y:684,w:429,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:9,x:89,y:735,w:100,h:26},
{t:"30. And he is moving on his way to us?",p:9,x:89,y:787,w:429,h:26},
{t:"A stranger enters stage left.",p:9,x:89,y:839,w:306,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE.",p:9,x:89,y:890,w:124,h:26},
{t:"He’s here already, father. You can speak",p:9,x:89,y:942,w:443,h:26},
{t:"as prompted by the answers that we seek.",p:9,x:89,y:974,w:463,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:9,x:89,y:1025,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Now, friend, I understand from one whose eyes",p:9,x:89,y:1077,w:519,h:26},
{t:"must serve for both of us that you’ll advise",p:9,x:89,y:1109,w:468,h:26},
{t:"on matters where we both are taking stock.",p:9,x:89,y:1140,w:475,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:9,x:89,y:1192,w:119,h:26},
{t:"I can, but first you must get off that rock,",p:9,x:89,y:1244,w:456,h:26},
{t:"6",p:10,x:493,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"for on this holy ground you may not tread.",p:10,x:94,y:84,w:465,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:10,x:94,y:135,w:100,h:26},
{t:"To whom so consecrated, have you said?",p:10,x:94,y:187,w:446,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:10,x:94,y:239,w:119,h:26},
{t:"Inviolable, to mortal steps denied,",p:10,x:94,y:290,w:374,h:26},
{t:"40. where Goddesses of Earth and Dark abide.",p:10,x:94,y:322,w:507,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:10,x:94,y:374,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Tell me the fateful name that’s here installed.",p:10,x:94,y:425,w:496,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:10,x:94,y:477,w:119,h:26},
{t:"The gracious, prescient ones, so they are called",p:10,x:94,y:529,w:518,h:26},
{t:"by us, though elsewhere they have other names.",p:10,x:94,y:560,w:535,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:10,x:94,y:612,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Then may they show this suppliant their claims",p:10,x:94,y:664,w:513,h:26},
{t:"for from this sanctuary I’ll never go.",p:10,x:94,y:695,w:394,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:10,x:94,y:747,w:119,h:26},
{t:"What’s that?",p:10,x:94,y:799,w:136,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:10,x:94,y:850,w:100,h:26},
{t:"The fates have said that this is so.",p:10,x:94,y:902,w:373,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:10,x:94,y:954,w:119,h:26},
{t:"If that’s the case I will not arbitrate,",p:10,x:94,y:1005,w:394,h:26},
{t:"without report or warrant from the State.",p:10,x:94,y:1037,w:450,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:10,x:94,y:1089,w:100,h:26},
{t:"To this one wandering what place he go",p:10,x:94,y:1140,w:433,h:26},
{t:"50. you’ll not deny the facts he has to know?",p:10,x:94,y:1172,w:489,h:26},
{t:"7",p:11,x:488,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"STRANGER",p:11,x:89,y:84,w:119,h:26},
{t:"Ask. I’d not be thought discourteous.",p:11,x:89,y:135,w:404,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:11,x:89,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What do you call the spot surrounding us?",p:11,x:89,y:239,w:459,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:11,x:89,y:290,w:119,h:26},
{t:"That easily is told. The place around",p:11,x:89,y:342,w:394,h:26},
{t:"Poseidon holds, it is his sacred ground.",p:11,x:89,y:374,w:425,h:26},
{t:"Within, the fire-awarding and divine",p:11,x:89,y:405,w:391,h:26},
{t:"Titan, Prometheus also has his shrine.",p:11,x:89,y:437,w:415,h:26},
{t:"But here the rock you walk on has the name",p:11,x:89,y:469,w:483,h:26},
{t:"of Brazen Threshold, as the hill has claim",p:11,x:89,y:500,w:448,h:26},
{t:"to guard our Athens. Here the fields afford",p:11,x:89,y:532,w:463,h:26},
{t:"60. the horseman Colonus",p:11,x:89,y:564,w:286,h:26},
{t:"(points to statue)",p:11,x:89,y:615,w:190,h:26},
{t:"their dues as lord,",p:11,x:89,y:667,w:197,h:26},
{t:"and so in common with their own they bear",p:11,x:89,y:699,w:475,h:26},
{t:"his name. It is a place which they declare",p:11,x:89,y:730,w:453,h:26},
{t:"is far from history but dear to hearts.",p:11,x:89,y:762,w:407,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:11,x:89,y:814,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And there are citizens about these parts?",p:11,x:89,y:865,w:448,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:11,x:89,y:917,w:119,h:26},
{t:"There are. The tribe of Colonus their choice.",p:11,x:89,y:969,w:480,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:11,x:89,y:1020,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And ruled by kings or by the people’s voice?",p:11,x:89,y:1072,w:482,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:11,x:89,y:1124,w:119,h:26},
{t:"The King of Athens is our overlord.",p:11,x:89,y:1175,w:379,h:26},
{t:"8",p:12,x:493,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:12,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"As much by deeds as in his speech assured?",p:12,x:94,y:135,w:482,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:12,x:94,y:187,w:119,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, son of Aegeus, our late king.",p:12,x:94,y:239,w:417,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:12,x:94,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"70. Could messenger be sent for summoning?",p:12,x:94,y:342,w:502,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:12,x:94,y:394,w:119,h:26},
{t:"What expectation could that act afford?",p:12,x:94,y:445,w:428,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:12,x:94,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A kindness to me earns a great reward.",p:12,x:94,y:549,w:430,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:12,x:94,y:600,w:119,h:26},
{t:"How can a blind man grant so great a prize?",p:12,x:94,y:652,w:482,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:12,x:94,y:704,w:100,h:26},
{t:"All I tell him will be winged with eyes.",p:12,x:94,y:755,w:413,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:12,x:94,y:807,w:119,h:26},
{t:"I’d not bring further injury on you,",p:12,x:94,y:859,w:377,h:26},
{t:"my friend, who seem a noble man, though, true,",p:12,x:94,y:890,w:531,h:26},
{t:"ill-fated currently. So stay on here",p:12,x:94,y:922,w:374,h:26},
{t:"while I go find what countrymen are near",p:12,x:94,y:954,w:451,h:26},
{t:"and not in town at present. They can say",p:12,x:94,y:985,w:447,h:26},
{t:"80. if you may rest here or must go your way.",p:12,x:94,y:1017,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Exit stranger stage left.",p:12,x:94,y:1069,w:256,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:12,x:94,y:1120,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Tell me, daughter, has the stranger gone?",p:12,x:94,y:1172,w:459,h:26},
{t:"9",p:13,x:488,y:1291,w:10,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:13,x:89,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Yes, he is gone, and we’re entirely on",p:13,x:89,y:135,w:409,h:26},
{t:"our own now: you can speak in privacy.",p:13,x:89,y:167,w:434,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:13,x:89,y:219,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Since, mighty Goddesses, your sanctuary",p:13,x:89,y:270,w:451,h:26},
{t:"is first where I have come to pay my due,",p:13,x:89,y:302,w:456,h:26},
{t:"receive me graciously, and Phoebus who,",p:13,x:89,y:334,w:450,h:26},
{t:"in telling of such wretchedness as mine",p:13,x:89,y:365,w:428,h:26},
{t:"for many years to come, yet made your shrine",p:13,x:89,y:397,w:507,h:26},
{t:"the port and sleeping place at my decease:",p:13,x:89,y:429,w:471,h:26},
{t:"90 a place ordained to great divinities",p:13,x:89,y:460,w:411,h:26},
{t:"where I would end, he said, my weary life",p:13,x:89,y:492,w:457,h:26},
{t:"with benefits that lay beyond the strife",p:13,x:89,y:524,w:422,h:26},
{t:"that marked me out. And more: he that took",p:13,x:89,y:555,w:489,h:26},
{t:"me in would benefit, while he that shook",p:13,x:89,y:587,w:443,h:26},
{t:"me off should be accurst, his land destroyed.",p:13,x:89,y:619,w:491,h:26},
{t:"He told me portents too would be employed",p:13,x:89,y:650,w:478,h:26},
{t:"in Zeus’s earthquake, fire and thunderclap.",p:13,x:89,y:682,w:469,h:26},
{t:"So now I recognize, at last, that no mishap",p:13,x:89,y:714,w:470,h:26},
{t:"has led my wandering footsteps to your grove.",p:13,x:89,y:745,w:509,h:26},
{t:"100. Some omen guided me in what I strove",p:13,x:89,y:777,w:488,h:26},
{t:"to be, a man like you denied all wine,",p:13,x:89,y:809,w:409,h:26},
{t:"who sits now solemnly at your great shrine.",p:13,x:89,y:840,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Great ones, recall the words Apollo said,",p:13,x:89,y:872,w:440,h:26},
{t:"and give me consummation of the life I’ve led.",p:13,x:89,y:904,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Unless it is I am beyond all grace,",p:13,x:89,y:935,w:370,h:26},
{t:"and stay the most accursed of any race,",p:13,x:89,y:967,w:437,h:26},
{t:"hear, gentle daughters of the night and old",p:13,x:89,y:999,w:468,h:26},
{t:"and you, the gathered in Athena’s fold,",p:13,x:89,y:1030,w:425,h:26},
{t:"the first of cities: pity this poor wraith",p:13,x:89,y:1062,w:413,h:26},
{t:"110. who’s only Oedipus by outworn faith.",p:13,x:89,y:1094,w:461,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:13,x:89,y:1145,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Hush, my father: some elders come, no doubt",p:13,x:89,y:1197,w:503,h:26},
{t:"to search this sanctuary and turn us out.",p:13,x:89,y:1229,w:443,h:26},
{t:"10",p:14,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:14,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I will be quiet and by you bestowed",p:14,x:94,y:135,w:388,h:26},
{t:"into the covert from the public road,",p:14,x:94,y:167,w:395,h:26},
{t:"to learn their drift of speech, for in that source",p:14,x:94,y:199,w:507,h:26},
{t:"there lies the natural safeguard of our course.",p:14,x:94,y:230,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus and Antigone withdraw to grove.",p:14,x:94,y:282,w:451,h:26},
{t:"PARADOS (Choral dialogue spoken or sung as chorus enters)",p:14,x:94,y:334,w:665,h:26},
{t:"Chorus enters from stage left.",p:14,x:94,y:385,w:327,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:14,x:94,y:437,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turning in one direction)",p:14,x:94,y:489,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Where’s he gone? Now look around.",p:14,x:94,y:540,w:391,h:26},
{t:"Find the man who’s fled away.",p:14,x:94,y:572,w:331,h:26},
{t:"On such holy ground he goes,",p:14,x:94,y:604,w:325,h:26},
{t:"120. most insolent of men alive.",p:14,x:94,y:635,w:352,h:26},
{t:"Some wanderers no doubt, who strive",p:14,x:94,y:667,w:414,h:26},
{t:"against the customs of our land.",p:14,x:94,y:699,w:351,h:26},
{t:"In ignorance the foolish chose",p:14,x:94,y:730,w:326,h:26},
{t:"not to ask or understand",p:14,x:94,y:762,w:269,h:26},
{t:"how hazardous is this quiet ground.",p:14,x:94,y:794,w:389,h:26},
{t:"Come quickly, search, he must not stray.",p:14,x:94,y:825,w:450,h:26},
{t:"For here the thoughtful man complies",p:14,x:94,y:857,w:410,h:26},
{t:"with virgins holding life and death,",p:14,x:94,y:889,w:377,h:26},
{t:"and from this grove averts his eyes.",p:14,x:94,y:920,w:393,h:26},
{t:"130. He only mentions them in breath,",p:14,x:94,y:952,w:423,h:26},
{t:"in whispers and in piety:",p:14,x:94,y:984,w:268,h:26},
{t:"he murmurs and he passes on,",p:14,x:94,y:1015,w:338,h:26},
{t:"and not as this one in disgrace",p:14,x:94,y:1047,w:333,h:26},
{t:"who desecrates this holy place.",p:14,x:94,y:1079,w:340,h:26},
{t:"Where is the overconfident?",p:14,x:94,y:1110,w:304,h:26},
{t:"I look and search but cannot see",p:14,x:94,y:1142,w:357,h:26},
{t:"the spot where this old man has gone.",p:14,x:94,y:1174,w:418,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus comes forward from the grove.",p:14,x:94,y:1225,w:434,h:26},
{t:"11",p:15,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:15,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Here I am, the man you want.",p:15,x:89,y:135,w:331,h:26},
{t:"With ears a blind man yet may see.",p:15,x:89,y:167,w:387,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:15,x:89,y:219,w:93,h:26},
{t:"140. Ah, what a horror is to be!",p:15,x:89,y:270,w:344,h:26},
{t:"A ruined thing we meet and hear!",p:15,x:89,y:302,w:367,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:15,x:89,y:354,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It is no common outlaw here.",p:15,x:89,y:405,w:321,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:15,x:89,y:457,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Who, Zeus protect us, can he be?",p:15,x:89,y:509,w:366,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:15,x:89,y:560,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Bereft of fortune, such is he,",p:15,x:89,y:612,w:312,h:26},
{t:"that you, good guardians of the land,",p:15,x:89,y:644,w:406,h:26},
{t:"will not much envy one whose hand",p:15,x:89,y:675,w:390,h:26},
{t:"is held by others, and whose guide",p:15,x:89,y:707,w:379,h:26},
{t:"is one supporting at my side.",p:15,x:89,y:739,w:317,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:15,x:89,y:790,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:15,x:89,y:842,w:525,h:26},
{t:"If you were sightless from your birth",p:15,x:89,y:894,w:399,h:26},
{t:"150. then harsh your days and all too long",p:15,x:89,y:925,w:463,h:26},
{t:"have been your troubles on this earth.",p:15,x:89,y:957,w:418,h:26},
{t:"I would not recklessly prolong",p:15,x:89,y:989,w:327,h:26},
{t:"afflictions with an added curse,",p:15,x:89,y:1020,w:338,h:26},
{t:"but tell you, stranger, that you err.",p:15,x:89,y:1052,w:383,h:26},
{t:"You go too far now and may do",p:15,x:89,y:1084,w:342,h:26},
{t:"much violence to us, maybe, worse,",p:15,x:89,y:1115,w:393,h:26},
{t:"will desecrate that silent glade",p:15,x:89,y:1147,w:330,h:26},
{t:"where bowls of water mix with mead.",p:15,x:89,y:1179,w:408,h:26},
{t:"I must remove you from this shade.",p:15,x:89,y:1210,w:393,h:26},
{t:"160. So stranger, go at once, and heed",p:15,x:89,y:1242,w:428,h:26},
{t:"12",p:16,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"how much you trespass on their grace.",p:16,x:94,y:84,w:424,h:26},
{t:"A distance separates but you",p:16,x:94,y:115,w:315,h:26},
{t:"will hear us all the same and know",p:16,x:94,y:147,w:377,h:26},
{t:"what pains your errors may incur.",p:16,x:94,y:179,w:370,h:26},
{t:"I ask you therefore, leave and go,",p:16,x:94,y:210,w:370,h:26},
{t:"but if, thereafter, you would speak",p:16,x:94,y:242,w:377,h:26},
{t:"with us, unhappy wanderer,",p:16,x:94,y:274,w:304,h:26},
{t:"then do so then, and do not seek",p:16,x:94,y:305,w:361,h:26},
{t:"before to violate this place.",p:16,x:94,y:337,w:296,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:16,x:94,y:389,w:100,h:26},
{t:"170. My daughter, what to do for best?",p:16,x:94,y:440,w:427,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:16,x:94,y:492,w:116,h:26},
{t:"We must comply with their request",p:16,x:94,y:544,w:381,h:26},
{t:"and follow what their counsels say.",p:16,x:94,y:575,w:382,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:16,x:94,y:627,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Your hand to help me on my way.",p:16,x:94,y:679,w:369,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:16,x:94,y:730,w:116,h:26},
{t:"You feel it now it’s laid in yours?",p:16,x:94,y:782,w:352,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:16,x:94,y:834,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You promise me? I’ll have no cause",p:16,x:94,y:885,w:386,h:26},
{t:"in leaving to regret this trust?",p:16,x:94,y:917,w:325,h:26},
{t:"Led by Antigone, Oedipus starts moving downstage.",p:16,x:94,y:969,w:568,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:16,x:94,y:1020,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:16,x:94,y:1072,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Come, old man, as come you must;",p:16,x:94,y:1124,w:390,h:26},
{t:"you’ll not be forced to move again.",p:16,x:94,y:1155,w:380,h:26},
{t:"13",p:17,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:17,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Enough?",p:17,x:89,y:135,w:93,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:17,x:89,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"No, more.",p:17,x:89,y:239,w:109,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:17,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You’ll tell me when?",p:17,x:89,y:342,w:217,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:17,x:89,y:394,w:93,h:26},
{t:"180. Help him, you who see the way",p:17,x:89,y:445,w:399,h:26},
{t:"his dark and stumbling steps must take.",p:17,x:89,y:477,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Several unnumbered verses seem to have been lost here.",p:17,x:89,y:529,w:629,h:26},
{t:" ANTIGONE",p:17,x:89,y:580,w:124,h:26},
{t:"Follow, father, in my wake:",p:17,x:89,y:632,w:298,h:26},
{t:"here, so clasp it, is my hand.",p:17,x:89,y:664,w:316,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:17,x:89,y:715,w:93,h:26},
{t:"A stranger in another’s land",p:17,x:89,y:767,w:302,h:26},
{t:"accepts that country’s practices.",p:17,x:89,y:799,w:351,h:26},
{t:"Against her hates he takes his stand",p:17,x:89,y:830,w:395,h:26},
{t:"and moulds affections into his.",p:17,x:89,y:862,w:333,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:17,x:89,y:914,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Let us do then as we need.",p:17,x:89,y:965,w:295,h:26},
{t:"Come, my daughter, lead again",p:17,x:89,y:997,w:344,h:26},
{t:"190. to safer ground where we may heed",p:17,x:89,y:1029,w:450,h:26},
{t:"the speech of pious countrymen.",p:17,x:89,y:1060,w:356,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:17,x:89,y:1112,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:17,x:89,y:1164,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Then at the base of that rock floor",p:17,x:89,y:1215,w:372,h:26},
{t:"14",p:18,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"sit you down and stir no more.",p:18,x:94,y:84,w:334,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:18,x:94,y:135,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Enough?",p:18,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:18,x:94,y:239,w:93,h:26},
{t:"It is.",p:18,x:94,y:290,w:50,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:18,x:94,y:342,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Sit as before?",p:18,x:94,y:394,w:149,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:18,x:94,y:445,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Move a little sideways now and show",p:18,x:94,y:497,w:402,h:26},
{t:"yourself upon that ledge bent low.",p:18,x:94,y:529,w:373,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:18,x:94,y:580,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Come, I’ll help you: reach for me.",p:18,x:94,y:632,w:370,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:18,x:94,y:684,w:100,h:26},
{t:"How hard this life now seems to be.",p:18,x:94,y:735,w:390,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:18,x:94,y:787,w:116,h:26},
{t:"We’ll step together out of harm:",p:18,x:94,y:839,w:350,h:26},
{t:"200. here now, father, is my arm.",p:18,x:94,y:870,w:369,h:26},
{t:"So lean on me, and walk, and rest.",p:18,x:94,y:902,w:382,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:18,x:94,y:954,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And dark for this unwelcome guest.",p:18,x:94,y:1005,w:387,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus is settled on the rock centre stage.",p:18,x:94,y:1057,w:474,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:18,x:94,y:1109,w:93,h:26},
{t:"So tell us, now you have your rest,",p:18,x:94,y:1160,w:382,h:26},
{t:"your reasons for this way on earth,",p:18,x:94,y:1192,w:383,h:26},
{t:"the name by which you are addressed,",p:18,x:94,y:1224,w:422,h:26},
{t:"15",p:19,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"and father’s name and place of birth.",p:19,x:89,y:84,w:403,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:19,x:89,y:135,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I am an exile: that must do.",p:19,x:89,y:187,w:307,h:26},
{t:"No more now, I beg of you.",p:19,x:89,y:219,w:300,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:19,x:89,y:270,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What is it you would conceal?",p:19,x:89,y:322,w:322,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:19,x:89,y:374,w:100,h:26},
{t:"210. No, do not ask me to reveal",p:19,x:89,y:425,w:360,h:26},
{t:"my name or lineage to you now.",p:19,x:89,y:457,w:353,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:19,x:89,y:509,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Why?",p:19,x:89,y:560,w:59,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:19,x:89,y:612,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Repugnant.",p:19,x:89,y:664,w:125,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:19,x:89,y:715,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then tell us how.",p:19,x:89,y:767,w:186,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:19,x:89,y:819,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I’ve said as much as any can.",p:19,x:89,y:870,w:322,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:19,x:89,y:922,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What is your lineage? Tell, old man.",p:19,x:89,y:974,w:391,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:19,x:89,y:1025,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My child, what can I say to them?",p:19,x:89,y:1077,w:367,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:19,x:89,y:1129,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Truth’s our only stratagem.",p:19,x:89,y:1180,w:297,h:26},
{t:"16",p:20,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It is, and that is what we’ll do.",p:20,x:94,y:135,w:331,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:20,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Why waste our time, the two of you?",p:20,x:94,y:239,w:402,h:26},
{t:" OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:290,w:107,h:26},
{t:"You know, do you, the son of Laïus?",p:20,x:94,y:342,w:394,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:20,x:94,y:394,w:93,h:26},
{t:"220. Ah no!",p:20,x:94,y:445,w:127,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"The race of Labdicus?",p:20,x:94,y:549,w:235,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:20,x:94,y:600,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Dear Gods!",p:20,x:94,y:652,w:122,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:704,w:100,h:26},
{t:"The hapless Oedipus.",p:20,x:94,y:755,w:231,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:20,x:94,y:807,w:93,h:26},
{t:"And you’re that man who’s come to us?",p:20,x:94,y:859,w:432,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:910,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But have no fear of what I say.",p:20,x:94,y:962,w:339,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:20,x:94,y:1014,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Enough, enough, be on your way.",p:20,x:94,y:1065,w:368,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:20,x:94,y:1117,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A wretch I am.",p:20,x:94,y:1169,w:161,h:26},
{t:"17",p:21,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:21,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Be off we say!",p:21,x:89,y:135,w:154,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:21,x:89,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My child, what will they do?",p:21,x:89,y:239,w:301,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:21,x:89,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Leave our lands, the two of you!",p:21,x:89,y:342,w:352,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:21,x:89,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You must fulfil what’s promised me.",p:21,x:89,y:445,w:391,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:21,x:89,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"No man is visited by fate",p:21,x:89,y:549,w:270,h:26},
{t:"230. by giving back what was received.",p:21,x:89,y:580,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Recklessly we were deceived",p:21,x:89,y:612,w:313,h:26},
{t:"and so deny that former oath.",p:21,x:89,y:644,w:327,h:26},
{t:"Give up this resting place, the both",p:21,x:89,y:675,w:383,h:26},
{t:"of you. Your being here will see",p:21,x:89,y:707,w:343,h:26},
{t:"a heavy burden on the State.",p:21,x:89,y:739,w:318,h:26},
{t:" ANTIGONE",p:21,x:89,y:790,w:124,h:26},
{t:"Strangers, in all reverence",p:21,x:89,y:842,w:288,h:26},
{t:"I ask you to perceive our case.",p:21,x:89,y:874,w:336,h:26},
{t:"You have not helped my father hence,",p:21,x:89,y:905,w:415,h:26},
{t:"but only heard of his disgrace",p:21,x:89,y:937,w:323,h:26},
{t:"240. in vile and unintended deeds.",p:21,x:89,y:969,w:377,h:26},
{t:"I ask you look upon his child",p:21,x:89,y:1000,w:311,h:26},
{t:"that’s here imploring you with eyes",p:21,x:89,y:1032,w:384,h:26},
{t:"as yours are, open, undefiled,",p:21,x:89,y:1064,w:325,h:26},
{t:"and looking as your own, to hear",p:21,x:89,y:1095,w:359,h:26},
{t:"her plea to you and sympathise",p:21,x:89,y:1127,w:343,h:26},
{t:"as she can barely hope, and straight-",p:21,x:89,y:1159,w:406,h:26},
{t:"way grant this end to misery.",p:21,x:89,y:1190,w:320,h:26},
{t:"By what you hold in child most dear,",p:21,x:89,y:1222,w:399,h:26},
{t:"in wife, possessions, holy creeds,",p:21,x:89,y:1254,w:362,h:26},
{t:"18",p:22,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"250. consider man, poor man, and see",p:22,x:94,y:84,w:422,h:26},
{t:"there is no mortal or estate",p:22,x:94,y:115,w:299,h:26},
{t:"that from the gods is ever free",p:22,x:94,y:147,w:334,h:26},
{t:"if they should drive him to his fate.",p:22,x:94,y:179,w:383,h:26},
{t:"End of Parados",p:22,x:94,y:230,w:162,h:26},
{t:"19",p:23,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PART TW O",p:23,x:89,y:114,w:144,h:31},
{t:"CHORUS",p:23,x:89,y:195,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Now all too surely, child of Oedipus,",p:23,x:89,y:247,w:392,h:26},
{t:"we pity one and both, and what has passed,",p:23,x:89,y:279,w:481,h:26},
{t:"but dread the evils gods prepare for us",p:23,x:89,y:310,w:425,h:26},
{t:"if we go further than we granted last.",p:23,x:89,y:342,w:408,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:23,x:89,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What good is famous glory of a State",p:23,x:89,y:445,w:405,h:26},
{t:"if emptiness of breath but issues out?",p:23,x:89,y:477,w:410,h:26},
{t:"260. It may be Athens is the most devout,",p:23,x:89,y:509,w:463,h:26},
{t:"indeed men say so, of all cities praised",p:23,x:89,y:540,w:422,h:26},
{t:"as prompt to take in strangers, give them aid.",p:23,x:89,y:572,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Yet not from looks or laws that I may flout",p:23,x:89,y:604,w:463,h:26},
{t:"but by my name alone I’m driven out,",p:23,x:89,y:635,w:415,h:26},
{t:"from seat and country, though in truth my deeds",p:23,x:89,y:667,w:533,h:26},
{t:"were more of suffering than what proceeds",p:23,x:89,y:699,w:468,h:26},
{t:"from action. It’s unseemly that I tell",p:23,x:89,y:730,w:395,h:26},
{t:"you stories of my family, which well",p:23,x:89,y:762,w:390,h:26},
{t:"you know, and dread, but only ask in fact:",p:23,x:89,y:794,w:463,h:26},
{t:"270. would it be evil had I known? An act",p:23,x:89,y:825,w:452,h:26},
{t:"that was unfortunate, but one to lend",p:23,x:89,y:857,w:407,h:26},
{t:"me strong suspicions that they wrought my end.",p:23,x:89,y:889,w:529,h:26},
{t:"I beg you by the gods, that, as you made",p:23,x:89,y:920,w:453,h:26},
{t:"me leave my seat, to have that trust repaid.",p:23,x:89,y:952,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Do not refuse the gods their due, nor fail",p:23,x:89,y:984,w:446,h:26},
{t:"to see they aid the pious but assail",p:23,x:89,y:1015,w:379,h:26},
{t:"irreverent men. No matter what his birth",p:23,x:89,y:1047,w:444,h:26},
{t:"no one escapes their justice on this earth.",p:23,x:89,y:1079,w:457,h:26},
{t:"I ask you therefore by your gods’ own fame",p:23,x:89,y:1110,w:477,h:26},
{t:"280. to keep the radiance of Athens’ name,",p:23,x:89,y:1142,w:473,h:26},
{t:"not stoop to petty acts of sacrilege",p:23,x:89,y:1174,w:378,h:26},
{t:"nor undo words you gave in solemn pledge,",p:23,x:89,y:1205,w:477,h:26},
{t:"but, as the unfathomable gods will send",p:23,x:89,y:1237,w:435,h:26},
{t:"20",p:24,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"this man, you will protect him to the end.",p:24,x:94,y:84,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Forget therefore his plain, unlovely face:",p:24,x:94,y:115,w:443,h:26},
{t:"he comes as someone sacred, filled with grace",p:24,x:94,y:147,w:507,h:26},
{t:"with power and piety and comforting",p:24,x:94,y:179,w:400,h:26},
{t:"for all the populace. And when the king",p:24,x:94,y:210,w:428,h:26},
{t:"arrives, your leader, you will know the how",p:24,x:94,y:242,w:471,h:26},
{t:"290. and wherefore of my purposes. For now",p:24,x:94,y:274,w:491,h:26},
{t:"do not be treacherous by fear or doubt.",p:24,x:94,y:305,w:431,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:24,x:94,y:357,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Old man, what you have said must give me pause",p:24,x:94,y:409,w:546,h:26},
{t:"and though they’re given out in weight, not light,",p:24,x:94,y:440,w:536,h:26},
{t:"I’ll give to rulers of our land the cause",p:24,x:94,y:472,w:416,h:26},
{t:"for their adjudicating what is right.",p:24,x:94,y:504,w:379,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:24,x:94,y:555,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Where is the ruler of this land about?",p:24,x:94,y:607,w:405,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:24,x:94,y:659,w:93,h:26},
{t:"In the city that his father graced,",p:24,x:94,y:710,w:361,h:26},
{t:"where he who brought us here has gone post-haste.",p:24,x:94,y:742,w:570,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:24,x:94,y:794,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You think he’ll come himself, that message can",p:24,x:94,y:845,w:514,h:26},
{t:"300. entice him out for such a blind old man?",p:24,x:94,y:877,w:495,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:24,x:94,y:929,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Most certainly, the once he knows your name.",p:24,x:94,y:980,w:503,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:24,x:94,y:1032,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And who is there to bring him such a claim?",p:24,x:94,y:1084,w:478,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:24,x:94,y:1135,w:93,h:26},
{t:"The messengers along that way aren’t dumb.",p:24,x:94,y:1187,w:492,h:26},
{t:"He’ll soon be hastening here: you need not doubt.",p:24,x:94,y:1219,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Your name is known, old man, and word is out,",p:24,x:94,y:1250,w:516,h:26},
{t:"21",p:25,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"No, were he tired or occupied, he’d lose",p:25,x:89,y:84,w:433,h:26},
{t:"no opportunity to straight way come.",p:25,x:89,y:115,w:404,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:25,x:89,y:167,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I pray for his and my sake that he choose",p:25,x:89,y:219,w:455,h:26},
{t:"that course: the good man is his own best friend.",p:25,x:89,y:250,w:538,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:25,x:89,y:302,w:116,h:26},
{t:"310. Dear Zeus, I can’t think next what fate will send.",p:25,x:89,y:354,w:588,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:25,x:89,y:405,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What is it you say?",p:25,x:89,y:457,w:206,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:25,x:89,y:509,w:116,h:26},
{t:"That I can see",p:25,x:89,y:560,w:154,h:26},
{t:"a woman coming, though far off from me.",p:25,x:89,y:592,w:458,h:26},
{t:"She’s mounted on a colt of Etna’s breed",p:25,x:89,y:624,w:435,h:26},
{t:"a woman riding to us. I can read,",p:25,x:89,y:655,w:363,h:26},
{t:"beneath a wide-brimmed Thessalian hat",p:25,x:89,y:687,w:436,h:26},
{t:"she wears no doubt to shade herself from that",p:25,x:89,y:719,w:504,h:26},
{t:"fierce sun, some features known to me. Or what",p:25,x:89,y:750,w:527,h:26},
{t:"I fancy are, perhaps. It’s her. It’s not.",p:25,x:89,y:782,w:414,h:26},
{t:"I see her greet me with a smile, confer",p:25,x:89,y:814,w:424,h:26},
{t:"320. a brightening glance. I look, I stare at her,",p:25,x:89,y:845,w:522,h:26},
{t:"but, true enough, it is Ismene near.",p:25,x:89,y:877,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Ismene enters stage right.",p:25,x:89,y:929,w:289,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:25,x:89,y:980,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It’s who?",p:25,x:89,y:1032,w:98,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:25,x:89,y:1084,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Your daughter and my sister here.",p:25,x:89,y:1135,w:374,h:26},
{t:"Her voice will straightway tell you what I see.",p:25,x:89,y:1167,w:497,h:26},
{t:"22",p:26,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Father, sister: names most dear to me.",p:26,x:94,y:135,w:429,h:26},
{t:"How hard to find you, and there’s such relief",p:26,x:94,y:167,w:485,h:26},
{t:"although I hardly see you through my grief.",p:26,x:94,y:199,w:477,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:26,x:94,y:250,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You’ve come, my child?",p:26,x:94,y:302,w:256,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:354,w:85,h:26},
{t:"How very sad your plight.",p:26,x:94,y:405,w:280,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:26,x:94,y:457,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It’s you?",p:26,x:94,y:509,w:93,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:560,w:85,h:26},
{t:"A journey hard, by day and night.",p:26,x:94,y:612,w:369,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:26,x:94,y:664,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Touch me, my child.",p:26,x:94,y:715,w:221,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:767,w:85,h:26},
{t:"I give a hand to each.",p:26,x:94,y:819,w:239,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:26,x:94,y:870,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My children. Sisters.",p:26,x:94,y:922,w:222,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:974,w:85,h:26},
{t:"330. What wretched straits I reach.",p:26,x:94,y:1025,w:387,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:26,x:94,y:1077,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You mean her life and mine?",p:26,x:94,y:1129,w:311,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:26,x:94,y:1180,w:85,h:26},
{t:"And mine no less.",p:26,x:94,y:1232,w:194,h:26},
{t:"23",p:27,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:27,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So tell me why you’ve come.",p:27,x:89,y:135,w:314,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:27,x:89,y:187,w:85,h:26},
{t:"A life to bless.",p:27,x:89,y:239,w:154,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:27,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A daughter’s yearning?",p:27,x:89,y:342,w:251,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:27,x:89,y:394,w:85,h:26},
{t:"That, and as I must",p:27,x:89,y:445,w:214,h:26},
{t:"convey this news by someone whom I trust.",p:27,x:89,y:477,w:482,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:27,x:89,y:529,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Your brothers, where are they when needed?",p:27,x:89,y:580,w:492,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:27,x:89,y:632,w:85,h:26},
{t:"They are . . . or have to darkest hour acceded.",p:27,x:89,y:684,w:509,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:27,x:89,y:735,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Enough of them, their very thoughts and days",p:27,x:89,y:787,w:503,h:26},
{t:"are modelled on those false Egyptian ways",p:27,x:89,y:819,w:465,h:26},
{t:"where men sit idly at the loom instead",p:27,x:89,y:850,w:419,h:26},
{t:"340. while women slave outside for daily bread.",p:27,x:89,y:882,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Look at your case, children: those whose place",p:27,x:89,y:914,w:510,h:26},
{t:"was helping me in hardship choose to grace",p:27,x:89,y:945,w:477,h:26},
{t:"the hearth, while you go out, in no way shun",p:27,x:89,y:977,w:489,h:26},
{t:"the aid your father needs.",p:27,x:89,y:1009,w:283,h:26},
{t:"(turning to Antigone)",p:27,x:89,y:1060,w:230,h:26},
{t:"For here is one",p:27,x:89,y:1112,w:163,h:26},
{t:"who from the day her girlish form was past",p:27,x:89,y:1144,w:470,h:26},
{t:"has been this old man’s guide, from first to last,",p:27,x:89,y:1175,w:525,h:26},
{t:"and shared his erring, hard and stumbling days",p:27,x:89,y:1207,w:516,h:26},
{t:"when barefoot, hungry through the forest ways",p:27,x:89,y:1239,w:516,h:26},
{t:"24",p:28,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"he went in drenching rain or in the heat.",p:28,x:94,y:84,w:441,h:26},
{t:"350. For her, that father’s care was incomplete",p:28,x:94,y:115,w:511,h:26},
{t:"if short of food or tenderness.",p:28,x:94,y:147,w:325,h:26},
{t:"(turning to Ismene)",p:28,x:94,y:199,w:215,h:26},
{t:"And you,",p:28,x:94,y:250,w:97,h:26},
{t:"my child, who ventured here from Thebes to do",p:28,x:94,y:282,w:519,h:26},
{t:"the office of a faithful messenger and bring",p:28,x:94,y:314,w:470,h:26},
{t:"your father oracles on anything",p:28,x:94,y:345,w:342,h:26},
{t:"that may concern his fate, unknown to them,",p:28,x:94,y:377,w:493,h:26},
{t:"the treacherous Cadmeians, who would condemn",p:28,x:94,y:409,w:535,h:26},
{t:"this Oedipus and cast him out. What news,",p:28,x:94,y:440,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Ismene, have you brought your father, dues",p:28,x:94,y:472,w:483,h:26},
{t:"you will not fail to notice, or to be",p:28,x:94,y:504,w:368,h:26},
{t:"360 a warning of such dangers as you see.",p:28,x:94,y:535,w:467,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:28,x:94,y:587,w:85,h:26},
{t:"All I suffered on the way, to find",p:28,x:94,y:639,w:353,h:26},
{t:"you, father, how you were and fared, it’s kind",p:28,x:94,y:670,w:498,h:26},
{t:"to pass on over: none will want to add",p:28,x:94,y:702,w:418,h:26},
{t:"to pain by telling hardships that were had.",p:28,x:94,y:734,w:462,h:26},
{t:"It is the trouble of your wretched sons",p:28,x:94,y:765,w:417,h:26},
{t:"I came to tell you of, and how it runs.",p:28,x:94,y:797,w:413,h:26},
{t:"At first they willed the throne to Creon, thus",p:28,x:94,y:829,w:482,h:26},
{t:"avoiding, so they thought, that curse on us,",p:28,x:94,y:860,w:479,h:26},
{t:"on city also, that bad blood of old",p:28,x:94,y:892,w:365,h:26},
{t:"370. that stains the family house and fold.",p:28,x:94,y:924,w:462,h:26},
{t:"But now a god has occupied their minds",p:28,x:94,y:955,w:435,h:26},
{t:"and stirs up rivalry it clearly finds,",p:28,x:94,y:987,w:372,h:26},
{t:"to seize the throne and all it represent.",p:28,x:94,y:1019,w:425,h:26},
{t:"The younger son is now a hothead bent",p:28,x:94,y:1050,w:431,h:26},
{t:"on keeping Polyneices off the throne,",p:28,x:94,y:1082,w:405,h:26},
{t:"and thrust him out, to keep the land alone.",p:28,x:94,y:1114,w:469,h:26},
{t:"And that same brother, said from Thebes now fled,",p:28,x:94,y:1145,w:556,h:26},
{t:"has occupied the hill-girt Argos, where, instead,",p:28,x:94,y:1177,w:522,h:26},
{t:"has made alliances with mighty hands",p:28,x:94,y:1209,w:414,h:26},
{t:"380 to fight and triumph in those exiled lands",p:28,x:94,y:1240,w:498,h:26},
{t:"25",p:29,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"or, failing that, lift glory to the sky.",p:29,x:89,y:84,w:384,h:26},
{t:"This is no empty threat, I do not lie",p:29,x:89,y:115,w:386,h:26},
{t:"but feel the terror darkening on this spell.",p:29,x:89,y:147,w:456,h:26},
{t:"When gods will pity you, I cannot tell.",p:29,x:89,y:179,w:413,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:29,x:89,y:230,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Since when have you so entertained a stroke",p:29,x:89,y:282,w:491,h:26},
{t:"of last deliverance from gods that spoke?",p:29,x:89,y:314,w:449,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:29,x:89,y:365,w:85,h:26},
{t:"The latest oracles won’t be gainsaid.",p:29,x:89,y:417,w:396,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:29,x:89,y:469,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What are these oracles, by which you’re led?",p:29,x:89,y:520,w:487,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:29,x:89,y:572,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Your country benefits, so they have said,",p:29,x:89,y:624,w:446,h:26},
{t:"390. from having you contained, alive or dead.",p:29,x:89,y:655,w:511,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:29,x:89,y:707,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What gain from having such a man as I?",p:29,x:89,y:759,w:442,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:29,x:89,y:810,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Your power, it’s said, is how the futures lie.",p:29,x:89,y:862,w:473,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:29,x:89,y:914,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So when I’m nothing now my worth begins.",p:29,x:89,y:965,w:476,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:29,x:89,y:1017,w:85,h:26},
{t:"At last the gods will lift you from your sins.",p:29,x:89,y:1069,w:468,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:29,x:89,y:1120,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Late help to this, an old man hurt before.",p:29,x:89,y:1172,w:450,h:26},
{t:"26",p:30,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:30,x:94,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"That well may be, but Creon’s coming for",p:30,x:94,y:135,w:450,h:26},
{t:"just that reason, and more soon that late.",p:30,x:94,y:167,w:456,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:30,x:94,y:219,w:100,h:26},
{t:"With what intent? In this you’ll tell me straight.",p:30,x:94,y:270,w:515,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:30,x:94,y:322,w:85,h:26},
{t:"To settle you on Theban land, but never let",p:30,x:94,y:374,w:471,h:26},
{t:"400. you live in boundaries by the city set.",p:30,x:94,y:405,w:466,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:30,x:94,y:457,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What use to rest beyond their city gates?",p:30,x:94,y:509,w:448,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:30,x:94,y:560,w:85,h:26},
{t:"It is a curse your tomb anticipates.",p:30,x:94,y:612,w:381,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:30,x:94,y:664,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It needs no god to give them common sense.",p:30,x:94,y:715,w:495,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:30,x:94,y:767,w:85,h:26},
{t:"That is why they’ll come to take you hence,",p:30,x:94,y:819,w:474,h:26},
{t:"not in, but as a neighbour, as they must.",p:30,x:94,y:850,w:447,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:30,x:94,y:902,w:100,h:26},
{t:"They mean to shroud my bones with Theban dust?",p:30,x:94,y:954,w:552,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:30,x:94,y:1005,w:85,h:26},
{t:"The guilt of kinsmen’s blood forbids them that.",p:30,x:94,y:1057,w:511,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:30,x:94,y:1109,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And not the place that I’d be resting at.",p:30,x:94,y:1160,w:431,h:26},
{t:"27",p:31,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Then griefs for Cadmeians will gather hence.",p:31,x:89,y:135,w:486,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:31,x:89,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"410. My child, by what arrangement with events?",p:31,x:89,y:239,w:540,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:290,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Your angry wraith when at your tomb they stand.",p:31,x:89,y:342,w:539,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:31,x:89,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Whence came this, child, or so you’d understand?",p:31,x:89,y:445,w:542,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:497,w:85,h:26},
{t:"The envoys visiting the Delphian hearth.",p:31,x:89,y:549,w:440,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:31,x:89,y:600,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And Phoebus spoke, they said, on my behalf?",p:31,x:89,y:652,w:496,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:704,w:85,h:26},
{t:"In coming back to Thebes they made that claim.",p:31,x:89,y:755,w:527,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:31,x:89,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Can either of my sons have heard the same?",p:31,x:89,y:859,w:487,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:910,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Yes, both, and know its meaning all too well.",p:31,x:89,y:962,w:488,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:31,x:89,y:1014,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And still that loathsome, selfsame greed will tell",p:31,x:89,y:1065,w:522,h:26},
{t:"they grasp at kingship more than want me back.",p:31,x:89,y:1097,w:530,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:31,x:89,y:1149,w:85,h:26},
{t:"420. I grieve to say there’s much in that attack.",p:31,x:89,y:1200,w:522,h:26},
{t:"28",p:32,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:32,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"May gods abet that feuding appetite,",p:32,x:94,y:135,w:401,h:26},
{t:"and I decide the ending of that fight",p:32,x:94,y:167,w:393,h:26},
{t:"for which the both are arming, spear for spear,",p:32,x:94,y:199,w:513,h:26},
{t:"that neither he who holds the sceptre near",p:32,x:94,y:230,w:464,h:26},
{t:"may keep his throne, nor he who fled the land",p:32,x:94,y:262,w:504,h:26},
{t:"return. The ingrates never raised a hand",p:32,x:94,y:294,w:442,h:26},
{t:"to help or to defend their father when",p:32,x:94,y:325,w:411,h:26},
{t:"they saw him weeping, most despised of men",p:32,x:94,y:357,w:498,h:26},
{t:"thrust out from his own country, shamefully",p:32,x:94,y:389,w:479,h:26},
{t:"430. and lacking place to go. What was their plea",p:32,x:94,y:420,w:539,h:26},
{t:"when I was exiled from the household fire?",p:32,x:94,y:452,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Nothing. You’ll say it was at my desire,",p:32,x:94,y:484,w:425,h:26},
{t:"I left, in which the State allowed my say.",p:32,x:94,y:515,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Not so, for, notice, on the very day",p:32,x:94,y:547,w:383,h:26},
{t:"when in self-loathing I desired but death,",p:32,x:94,y:579,w:451,h:26},
{t:"and even death by stoning, none gave breath",p:32,x:94,y:610,w:496,h:26},
{t:"to further that wild yearning, but, when time",p:32,x:94,y:642,w:487,h:26},
{t:"had numbed my anguish, and too much my crime",p:32,x:94,y:674,w:544,h:26},
{t:"was overrun by grief and disapproved",p:32,x:94,y:705,w:411,h:26},
{t:"440. of, then, and only then, the city moved",p:32,x:94,y:737,w:483,h:26},
{t:"with force to oust me: no, not hitherto.",p:32,x:94,y:769,w:428,h:26},
{t:"My sons, who should have served as sons must do,",p:32,x:94,y:800,w:559,h:26},
{t:"did nothing. All that wanted was one little word",p:32,x:94,y:832,w:516,h:26},
{t:"and they said nothing, no, they were not heard",p:32,x:94,y:864,w:514,h:26},
{t:"when I was banished, as a beggar too,",p:32,x:94,y:895,w:422,h:26},
{t:"condemned to wander. To their sisters due",p:32,x:94,y:927,w:466,h:26},
{t:"alone, who were mere girls, the debt I bear",p:32,x:94,y:959,w:474,h:26},
{t:"for daily food and shelter, daughters’ care.",p:32,x:94,y:990,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Their two brothers sacrificed their own",p:32,x:94,y:1022,w:419,h:26},
{t:"450. for power that lies in sceptred sway and throne.",p:32,x:94,y:1054,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Me they’ll never win, nor will attain",p:32,x:94,y:1085,w:382,h:26},
{t:"from that great throne of Thebes a lasting gain.",p:32,x:94,y:1117,w:519,h:26},
{t:"I know from oracles my daughter brings",p:32,x:94,y:1149,w:438,h:26},
{t:"and prophecies in old rememberings",p:32,x:94,y:1180,w:397,h:26},
{t:"which Phoebus has at last fulfilled for me,",p:32,x:94,y:1212,w:454,h:26},
{t:"that Creon comes here with his captaincy",p:32,x:94,y:1244,w:450,h:26},
{t:"29",p:33,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"to seek me out. But if you take my cause,",p:33,x:89,y:84,w:457,h:26},
{t:"defended by great goddesses of yours,",p:33,x:89,y:115,w:423,h:26},
{t:"I will procure deliverance for this State",p:33,x:89,y:147,w:423,h:26},
{t:"460. and from the enemies that I must hate.",p:33,x:89,y:179,w:488,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:33,x:89,y:230,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Since, Oedipus, our pity now you’ve earned",p:33,x:89,y:282,w:475,h:26},
{t:"for self and daughters, and that pledge we’ve learned",p:33,x:89,y:314,w:583,h:26},
{t:"will be the saving of our land, I should",p:33,x:89,y:345,w:418,h:26},
{t:"now tell you things to do for your own good.",p:33,x:89,y:377,w:484,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:33,x:89,y:429,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Gladly, if you’ll guide me, friend, in these.",p:33,x:89,y:480,w:459,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:33,x:89,y:532,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Make, first, atonement to the deities",p:33,x:89,y:584,w:397,h:26},
{t:"whose grove you have profaned by straying here.",p:33,x:89,y:615,w:541,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:33,x:89,y:667,w:100,h:26},
{t:"If you would tell me, strangers, and be clear.",p:33,x:89,y:719,w:492,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:33,x:89,y:770,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then make libation of fresh water: bring",p:33,x:89,y:822,w:439,h:26},
{t:"470. it here by unsoiled hands from some pure spring.",p:33,x:89,y:854,w:594,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:33,x:89,y:905,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And then, when I have brought this natural draught.",p:33,x:89,y:957,w:571,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:33,x:89,y:1009,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You’ll find bowls waiting, wrought by master-craft,",p:33,x:89,y:1060,w:550,h:26},
{t:"so cover them, both rims and handles they have got.",p:33,x:89,y:1092,w:579,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:33,x:89,y:1144,w:100,h:26},
{t:"With olive shoots or flecks of wool or what?",p:33,x:89,y:1195,w:472,h:26},
{t:"30",p:34,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"With wool from some ewe-lamb that’s freshly shorn.",p:34,x:94,y:135,w:571,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:34,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And afterwards, what is the action born?",p:34,x:94,y:239,w:443,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Pour out the holy water, facing east.",p:34,x:94,y:342,w:398,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:34,x:94,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It’s from those bowls the water is released?",p:34,x:94,y:445,w:476,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"In three clear streams, and empty out the last.",p:34,x:94,y:549,w:513,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:34,x:94,y:600,w:100,h:26},
{t:"480. What to fill them with, their contents cast?",p:34,x:94,y:652,w:520,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:704,w:93,h:26},
{t:"With water and with honey: add no wine.",p:34,x:94,y:755,w:449,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:34,x:94,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"When shaded earth has drunk to this design?",p:34,x:94,y:859,w:492,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:910,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then three times lay on it nine olive sprays",p:34,x:94,y:962,w:471,h:26},
{t:"with both your hands, and offer up this praise.",p:34,x:94,y:994,w:507,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:34,x:94,y:1045,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It is those potent words that I would gain.",p:34,x:94,y:1097,w:459,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:34,x:94,y:1149,w:93,h:26},
{t:"That as we call them gracious, they will deign",p:34,x:94,y:1200,w:496,h:26},
{t:"to grant the suppliant their peaceful grace.",p:34,x:94,y:1232,w:467,h:26},
{t:"31",p:35,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"You’ll pray yourself or someone in your place",p:35,x:89,y:84,w:491,h:26},
{t:"with unraised voice, that is, inaudibly.",p:35,x:89,y:115,w:414,h:26},
{t:"490. Then go and do not look behind. I’ll be",p:35,x:89,y:147,w:479,h:26},
{t:"your help if you do this, but, otherwise,",p:35,x:89,y:179,w:431,h:26},
{t:"would think the greatest jeopardy applies.",p:35,x:89,y:210,w:459,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:35,x:89,y:262,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You hear then, daughters, what our neighbours say?",p:35,x:89,y:314,w:572,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:35,x:89,y:365,w:116,h:26},
{t:"We have listened, and are on our way.",p:35,x:89,y:417,w:421,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:35,x:89,y:469,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I cannot go, disabled from this rite",p:35,x:89,y:520,w:379,h:26},
{t:"by frailty as my own want of sight,",p:35,x:89,y:552,w:378,h:26},
{t:"but one of you may serve. It will suffice,",p:35,x:89,y:584,w:441,h:26},
{t:"for one alone to offer sacrifice",p:35,x:89,y:615,w:326,h:26},
{t:"for thousands if the soul with all goodwill",p:35,x:89,y:647,w:446,h:26},
{t:"500. approach there earnestly. Go quickly. Still",p:35,x:89,y:679,w:513,h:26},
{t:"you leave me helplessly alone without",p:35,x:89,y:710,w:414,h:26},
{t:"a hand to guide me as I move about.",p:35,x:89,y:742,w:405,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:35,x:89,y:794,w:85,h:26},
{t:"I will perform these rites if they",p:35,x:89,y:845,w:345,h:26},
{t:"would tell the place to me and point the way.",p:35,x:89,y:877,w:492,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:35,x:89,y:929,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Beyond the grove, you’ll find a guardian",p:35,x:89,y:980,w:437,h:26},
{t:"who’ll be at hand to help you if he can.",p:35,x:89,y:1012,w:425,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:35,x:89,y:1064,w:85,h:26},
{t:"I go, and you, Antigone, take care",p:35,x:89,y:1115,w:374,h:26},
{t:"to guard our father now. For parents there",p:35,x:89,y:1147,w:463,h:26},
{t:"cannot be drudgery in what we do.",p:35,x:89,y:1179,w:379,h:26},
{t:"Ismene exits stage right.",p:35,x:89,y:1230,w:272,h:26},
{t:"32",p:36,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Kommos (Choral dialogue)",p:36,x:94,y:84,w:291,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:36,x:94,y:135,w:525,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:36,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"510. A hurtful thing it is to wake",p:36,x:94,y:239,w:354,h:26},
{t:"a grief that can no longer ache",p:36,x:94,y:270,w:334,h:26},
{t:"and view again that old mistake . . .",p:36,x:94,y:302,w:393,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:36,x:94,y:354,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What now?",p:36,x:94,y:405,w:120,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:36,x:94,y:457,w:93,h:26},
{t:"The anguish that no doubt",p:36,x:94,y:509,w:286,h:26},
{t:"you fought but left you no way out.",p:36,x:94,y:540,w:386,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:36,x:94,y:592,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It is a kindness guests may claim",p:36,x:94,y:644,w:363,h:26},
{t:"to be protected from their shame.",p:36,x:94,y:675,w:370,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:36,x:94,y:727,w:93,h:26},
{t:"The tale continues far and near",p:36,x:94,y:779,w:339,h:26},
{t:"It is a truth that I would hear.",p:36,x:94,y:810,w:326,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:36,x:94,y:862,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Ah no.",p:36,x:94,y:914,w:70,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:36,x:94,y:965,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Be calm.",p:36,x:94,y:1017,w:94,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:36,x:94,y:1069,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You have no cause.",p:36,x:94,y:1120,w:212,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:36,x:94,y:1172,w:93,h:26},
{t:"520. Grant my request: I granted yours.",p:36,x:94,y:1224,w:442,h:26},
{t:"33",p:37,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:37,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:37,x:89,y:135,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Then know I suffered grievously.",p:37,x:89,y:187,w:357,h:26},
{t:"Unwittingly, as Heaven may see,",p:37,x:89,y:219,w:357,h:26},
{t:"I brought these troubles on my head.",p:37,x:89,y:250,w:408,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:37,x:89,y:302,w:93,h:26},
{t:"But what exactly have you said?",p:37,x:89,y:354,w:351,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:37,x:89,y:405,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I mean the unclean marriage bed",p:37,x:89,y:457,w:363,h:26},
{t:"of Thebes, by which the curse was bred.",p:37,x:89,y:489,w:439,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:37,x:89,y:540,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You shared the marriage bed with one",p:37,x:89,y:592,w:416,h:26},
{t:"of whom in truth you were the son . . .",p:37,x:89,y:624,w:424,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:37,x:89,y:675,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Words to bring such infamy,",p:37,x:89,y:727,w:307,h:26},
{t:"530. and to the women bred of me.",p:37,x:89,y:759,w:388,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:37,x:89,y:810,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Whatever would these women be?",p:37,x:89,y:862,w:373,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:37,x:89,y:914,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Two daughters, both are cursed by me.",p:37,x:89,y:965,w:429,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:37,x:89,y:1017,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Dear Zeus, in what way cursed?",p:37,x:89,y:1069,w:349,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:37,x:89,y:1120,w:100,h:26},
{t:"By birth in truth: I was the first.",p:37,x:89,y:1172,w:351,h:26},
{t:"34",p:38,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:38,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"By that same mother, whom you claim . . .",p:38,x:94,y:135,w:469,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:38,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Daughters, sisters: both the same.",p:38,x:94,y:239,w:380,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:38,x:94,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Horrors . . .",p:38,x:94,y:342,w:128,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:38,x:94,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Equally to me.",p:38,x:94,y:445,w:157,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:38,x:94,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Suffering . . .",p:38,x:94,y:549,w:145,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:38,x:94,y:600,w:100,h:26},
{t:"That should not be.",p:38,x:94,y:652,w:211,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:38,x:94,y:704,w:93,h:26},
{t:"For sins",p:38,x:94,y:755,w:84,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:38,x:94,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"No sins.",p:38,x:94,y:859,w:86,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:38,x:94,y:910,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then how?",p:38,x:94,y:962,w:117,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:38,x:94,y:1014,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I won",p:38,x:94,y:1065,w:61,h:26},
{t:"540. the prize by which I was undone",p:38,x:94,y:1097,w:409,h:26},
{t:"by Thebes in service to the State.",p:38,x:94,y:1129,w:367,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:38,x:94,y:1180,w:525,h:26},
{t:"35",p:39,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Yet blood you shed at any rate?",p:39,x:89,y:135,w:346,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:39,x:89,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What is it that you’d hear more?",p:39,x:89,y:239,w:352,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"A father’s?",p:39,x:89,y:342,w:116,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:39,x:89,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Another wound in store.",p:39,x:89,y:445,w:262,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Murderer.",p:39,x:89,y:549,w:106,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:39,x:89,y:600,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A murderer perhaps, but not . . .",p:39,x:89,y:652,w:358,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:704,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You’d make?",p:39,x:89,y:755,w:138,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:39,x:89,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A plea for justice.",p:39,x:89,y:859,w:191,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:910,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What?",p:39,x:89,y:962,w:68,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:39,x:89,y:1014,w:100,h:26},
{t:"In law I slaughtered to prevent",p:39,x:89,y:1065,w:339,h:26},
{t:"my death: a wretch, but innocent.",p:39,x:89,y:1097,w:373,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos. Chorus turns to face entrance of Theseus.",p:39,x:89,y:1149,w:642,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:39,x:89,y:1200,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, son of Aegeus, I see near.",p:39,x:89,y:1252,w:390,h:26},
{t:"36",p:40,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"550. No doubt your part in this has brought him here.",p:40,x:94,y:84,w:588,h:26},
{t:"Theseus enters with soldiers stage left.",p:40,x:94,y:135,w:425,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:40,x:94,y:187,w:102,h:26},
{t:"I have heard of you in times gone by,",p:40,x:94,y:239,w:411,h:26},
{t:"the mutilation of your sight, and I",p:40,x:94,y:270,w:369,h:26},
{t:"now recognize you, son of Laïus, and see",p:40,x:94,y:302,w:448,h:26},
{t:"to my conjectures added certainty",p:40,x:94,y:334,w:372,h:26},
{t:"in hearsay given me in hastening here.",p:40,x:94,y:365,w:425,h:26},
{t:"In looks and in appearance I must fear",p:40,x:94,y:397,w:423,h:26},
{t:"you are indeed as named. Though pitying",p:40,x:94,y:429,w:453,h:26},
{t:"you now, Oedipus, I’d ask what thing",p:40,x:94,y:460,w:407,h:26},
{t:"or task you need of me, or Athens too,",p:40,x:94,y:492,w:423,h:26},
{t:"560. and likewise for that helpmate near to you.",p:40,x:94,y:524,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Inform me of it. Strange would be the tale",p:40,x:94,y:555,w:462,h:26},
{t:"to make the likes of me recoil or fail",p:40,x:94,y:587,w:393,h:26},
{t:"to help. For I knew exile. On that shore",p:40,x:94,y:619,w:429,h:26},
{t:"I met with many perils, no man more,",p:40,x:94,y:650,w:416,h:26},
{t:"and so, whatever the adversity,",p:40,x:94,y:682,w:346,h:26},
{t:"no man like you shall be refused by me.",p:40,x:94,y:714,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Like you I am a mortal, and my share",p:40,x:94,y:745,w:412,h:26},
{t:"for what the morrow brings is as your care.",p:40,x:94,y:777,w:473,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:40,x:94,y:829,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, your words, so apt and generous",p:40,x:94,y:880,w:463,h:26},
{t:"570. do not need long-extended speech from us.",p:40,x:94,y:912,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Both who I am and what my family line",p:40,x:94,y:944,w:429,h:26},
{t:"was, you know, the country that was mine.",p:40,x:94,y:975,w:471,h:26},
{t:"In short, to bring this story to its end,",p:40,x:94,y:1007,w:414,h:26},
{t:"I’ll speak of purposes that I intend.",p:40,x:94,y:1039,w:384,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:40,x:94,y:1090,w:102,h:26},
{t:"But tell me what it is that you would claim.",p:40,x:94,y:1142,w:468,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:40,x:94,y:1194,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I come to offer you this careworn frame",p:40,x:94,y:1245,w:435,h:26},
{t:"37",p:41,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"that is not much to look on, but contains",p:41,x:89,y:84,w:443,h:26},
{t:"far more than beauty in its royal gains.",p:41,x:89,y:115,w:427,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:41,x:89,y:167,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What are these gains you’ve brought, what benefit?",p:41,x:89,y:219,w:563,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:41,x:89,y:270,w:100,h:26},
{t:"580. In times to come you’ll know, but not as yet.",p:41,x:89,y:322,w:547,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:41,x:89,y:374,w:102,h:26},
{t:"So tell me when these benefits will be?",p:41,x:89,y:425,w:424,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:41,x:89,y:477,w:100,h:26},
{t:"When I am dead and you have buried me.",p:41,x:89,y:529,w:460,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:41,x:89,y:580,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You ask for life’s last offices: but what",p:41,x:89,y:632,w:415,h:26},
{t:"of life’s remaining part you still have got?",p:41,x:89,y:664,w:452,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:41,x:89,y:715,w:100,h:26},
{t:"This last of kindnesses makes up the rest.",p:41,x:89,y:767,w:458,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:41,x:89,y:819,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Then what you’d mention is a small request.",p:41,x:89,y:870,w:483,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:41,x:89,y:922,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Not so, but weigh the import carefully.",p:41,x:89,y:974,w:421,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:41,x:89,y:1025,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Disputes, you think, between your sons and me?",p:41,x:89,y:1077,w:532,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:41,x:89,y:1129,w:100,h:26},
{t:"To Thebes they’ll want to take me, that I know.",p:41,x:89,y:1180,w:518,h:26},
{t:"38",p:42,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"590. Why stay an exile here if you can go?",p:42,x:94,y:135,w:464,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:42,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But when I wanted that, the two refused.",p:42,x:94,y:239,w:449,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:290,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Such temper in misfortune’s badly used.",p:42,x:94,y:342,w:440,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:42,x:94,y:394,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So chide me if you wish, but hear me out.",p:42,x:94,y:445,w:458,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:497,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Speak on. There’s no pronouncing when in doubt.",p:42,x:94,y:549,w:542,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:42,x:94,y:600,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, such wrongs have been my case.",p:42,x:94,y:652,w:465,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:704,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You’ll not retell the troubles of your race?",p:42,x:94,y:755,w:452,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:42,x:94,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"No, that’s too well known throughout all Greece.",p:42,x:94,y:859,w:527,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:910,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Then what’s the grief that passes mortal lease?",p:42,x:94,y:962,w:515,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:42,x:94,y:1014,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It’s this: that from my own country driven",p:42,x:94,y:1065,w:460,h:26},
{t:"600. out by own offspring, I’m forbidden",p:42,x:94,y:1097,w:443,h:26},
{t:"to now return: I am a parricide.",p:42,x:94,y:1129,w:346,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:42,x:94,y:1180,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Why summon you if you must stay outside?",p:42,x:94,y:1232,w:478,h:26},
{t:"39",p:43,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:43,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"The god has spoken and they must obey.",p:43,x:89,y:135,w:450,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:43,x:89,y:187,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Ah, some threat of oracles, you say?",p:43,x:89,y:239,w:399,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:43,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"That they’ll be humbled by this land is true.",p:43,x:89,y:342,w:476,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:43,x:89,y:394,w:102,h:26},
{t:"I see no bitterness between us two.",p:43,x:89,y:445,w:390,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:43,x:89,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Kind son of Aegeus, to gods alone",p:43,x:89,y:549,w:370,h:26},
{t:"immunity from age and death is known,",p:43,x:89,y:580,w:436,h:26},
{t:"but nothing else escapes time’s ruinous ways.",p:43,x:89,y:612,w:500,h:26},
{t:"610. Earth’s power decays, the strength of men decays,",p:43,x:89,y:644,w:609,h:26},
{t:"all faith will pass from life, distrust be born",p:43,x:89,y:675,w:467,h:26},
{t:"when best of steadfast friendship is foresworn",p:43,x:89,y:707,w:500,h:26},
{t:"between two people and two cities. Sweet",p:43,x:89,y:739,w:457,h:26},
{t:"turns bitter, changes, turns to love’s fierce heat.",p:43,x:89,y:770,w:527,h:26},
{t:"Between you now and Thebes there is but sun,",p:43,x:89,y:802,w:511,h:26},
{t:"but time, his days and nights not yet begun",p:43,x:89,y:834,w:477,h:26},
{t:"to unfold trivial differences, may foil",p:43,x:89,y:865,w:393,h:26},
{t:"the harmony between each native soil",p:43,x:89,y:897,w:414,h:26},
{t:"and brandish banks of spears, when fury stalks.",p:43,x:89,y:929,w:522,h:26},
{t:"620. So shall my slumbering and buried corpse",p:43,x:89,y:960,w:514,h:26},
{t:"then drink their warm blood up, though cold in death,",p:43,x:89,y:992,w:586,h:26},
{t:"if Zeus and Phoebus speak with truthful breath.",p:43,x:89,y:1024,w:519,h:26},
{t:"But let us hear no more of mysteries,",p:43,x:89,y:1055,w:408,h:26},
{t:"the matters I began with should now cease.",p:43,x:89,y:1087,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Sufficient that you keep your oath to us",p:43,x:89,y:1119,w:434,h:26},
{t:"when you will never think that Oedipus",p:43,x:89,y:1150,w:425,h:26},
{t:"had come to you an idle, thankless guest",p:43,x:89,y:1182,w:448,h:26},
{t:"unless  the gods would cheat us for the rest.",p:43,x:89,y:1214,w:485,h:26},
{t:"40",p:44,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:44,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"It’s true such promises this man has nursed",p:44,x:94,y:135,w:479,h:26},
{t:"630. have been with blessings for us from the first.",p:44,x:94,y:167,w:558,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:44,x:94,y:219,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Who could deny the amity of such a man",p:44,x:94,y:270,w:446,h:26},
{t:"who should be welcome here as any can?",p:44,x:94,y:302,w:452,h:26},
{t:"He joins as ally, which we can’t withhold",p:44,x:94,y:334,w:440,h:26},
{t:"and comes as suppliant to gods we hold",p:44,x:94,y:365,w:435,h:26},
{t:"to add a recompense that we may earn,",p:44,x:94,y:397,w:436,h:26},
{t:"both I and country. I could never spurn",p:44,x:94,y:429,w:430,h:26},
{t:"a man so qualified as citizen.",p:44,x:94,y:460,w:316,h:26},
{t:"And therefore, if it suits the stranger then",p:44,x:94,y:492,w:456,h:26},
{t:"to stay, I place him in your charge, if not",p:44,x:94,y:524,w:448,h:26},
{t:"640. to come with me. Now Oedipus the what",p:44,x:94,y:555,w:499,h:26},
{t:"you choose will be for me the course you take.",p:44,x:94,y:587,w:510,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:44,x:94,y:639,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Zeus’s blessing for your country’s sake.",p:44,x:94,y:690,w:431,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:44,x:94,y:742,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What will you choose now, friend? My house is near.",p:44,x:94,y:794,w:571,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:44,x:94,y:845,w:100,h:26},
{t:"If that were possible I would. But here . . .",p:44,x:94,y:897,w:466,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:44,x:94,y:949,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Do what? Although I’d not stand in the way.",p:44,x:94,y:1000,w:481,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:44,x:94,y:1052,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Confound my persecutors: make them pay.",p:44,x:94,y:1104,w:475,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:44,x:94,y:1155,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Your presence promises, as we have heard.",p:44,x:94,y:1207,w:475,h:26},
{t:"41",p:45,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"And that more truly if you’ll keep your word.",p:45,x:89,y:135,w:485,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:45,x:89,y:187,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Be calm. My word is binding on us both.",p:45,x:89,y:239,w:438,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"650. Then I’ll not ask you for a formal oath.",p:45,x:89,y:342,w:478,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:45,x:89,y:394,w:102,h:26},
{t:"An oath’s no surer than my word in that.",p:45,x:89,y:445,w:444,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You’ll act?",p:45,x:89,y:549,w:109,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:45,x:89,y:600,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What is the case we’re looking at?",p:45,x:89,y:652,w:371,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:704,w:100,h:26},
{t:"That enemies will come.",p:45,x:89,y:755,w:263,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:45,x:89,y:807,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You have these men.",p:45,x:89,y:859,w:229,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:910,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But if you leave?",p:45,x:89,y:962,w:182,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:45,x:89,y:1014,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Don’t speak of that again.",p:45,x:89,y:1065,w:282,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:45,x:89,y:1117,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But fear compels . . .",p:45,x:89,y:1169,w:230,h:26},
{t:"42",p:46,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:46,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"And fear’s no part of me.",p:46,x:94,y:135,w:273,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:46,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You do not know the threats.",p:46,x:94,y:239,w:317,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:46,x:94,y:290,w:102,h:26},
{t:"The what I see",p:46,x:94,y:342,w:160,h:26},
{t:"is none will haul you off against my charge.",p:46,x:94,y:374,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Such threats are often made in bluster, large",p:46,x:94,y:405,w:490,h:26},
{t:"in anger doubtless, but when danger’s hence",p:46,x:94,y:437,w:489,h:26},
{t:"660. are seen as mind’s dethronement, lack of sense.",p:46,x:94,y:469,w:585,h:26},
{t:"And as for enemies, those good in threat",p:46,x:94,y:500,w:445,h:26},
{t:"who’d bring you back by force, they’ll be upset",p:46,x:94,y:532,w:510,h:26},
{t:"to find the seas between us hard to sail.",p:46,x:94,y:564,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Take heart. If Phoebus sent you he’ll not fail",p:46,x:94,y:595,w:482,h:26},
{t:"to help and to protect you. More, indeed:",p:46,x:94,y:627,w:450,h:26},
{t:"the name of Theseus will intercede",p:46,x:94,y:659,w:378,h:26},
{t:"and make a shield against the dangers yet.",p:46,x:94,y:690,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Exit Theseus and soldiers stage right. Chorus turns to face audience.",p:46,x:94,y:742,w:748,h:26},
{t:"Stasimon (stationary choral poem)",p:46,x:94,y:794,w:378,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:46,x:94,y:845,w:525,h:26},
{t:"So, stranger come to Colonus,",p:46,x:94,y:897,w:330,h:26},
{t:"you meet a land of shining white",p:46,x:94,y:929,w:356,h:26},
{t:"670. whose loveliness no tongue assails.",p:46,x:94,y:960,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Well-famed for horses and for shade",p:46,x:94,y:992,w:397,h:26},
{t:"in which through ivy out of sight",p:46,x:94,y:1024,w:352,h:26},
{t:"our constant guests, the nightingales,",p:46,x:94,y:1055,w:411,h:26},
{t:"pour out their music through the glade.",p:46,x:94,y:1087,w:430,h:26},
{t:"And revelling from dawn to late",p:46,x:94,y:1119,w:343,h:26},
{t:"beneath the leaves, inviolate",p:46,x:94,y:1150,w:313,h:26},
{t:"but thick with berries and with fruit,",p:46,x:94,y:1182,w:392,h:26},
{t:"where  nymphs will nurse him, pay their suit,",p:46,x:94,y:1214,w:494,h:26},
{t:"43",p:47,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Dionysus walks with us.",p:47,x:89,y:84,w:260,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:47,x:89,y:135,w:525,h:26},
{t:"680. Here the dewed and white narcissus",p:47,x:89,y:187,w:450,h:26},
{t:"flowers, with crocuses of soft gold",p:47,x:89,y:219,w:370,h:26},
{t:"hue, to crown the Goddesses of old",p:47,x:89,y:250,w:384,h:26},
{t:"from first awaking, dawn to dawn.",p:47,x:89,y:282,w:373,h:26},
{t:"Through this flows the Cephisus",p:47,x:89,y:314,w:347,h:26},
{t:"unendingly, from fountains drawn:",p:47,x:89,y:345,w:378,h:26},
{t:"its stainless waters daily trace",p:47,x:89,y:377,w:327,h:26},
{t:"their fecundations on the plain,",p:47,x:89,y:409,w:339,h:26},
{t:"so blessing it with quick increase.",p:47,x:89,y:440,w:365,h:26},
{t:"The Muses are not shy of face",p:47,x:89,y:472,w:326,h:26},
{t:"690. nor can Aphrodite cease",p:47,x:89,y:504,w:319,h:26},
{t:"to visit us with golden rein.",p:47,x:89,y:535,w:296,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:47,x:89,y:587,w:525,h:26},
{t:"There is a gift more versatile",p:47,x:89,y:639,w:314,h:26},
{t:"than famed in Asian countries grows",p:47,x:89,y:670,w:396,h:26},
{t:"or on the Dorian Pelop’s isle:",p:47,x:89,y:702,w:315,h:26},
{t:"I speak of grey-leafed olive trees",p:47,x:89,y:734,w:360,h:26},
{t:"those self-renewing nourishers",p:47,x:89,y:765,w:334,h:26},
{t:"of children, giving age its ease,",p:47,x:89,y:797,w:341,h:26},
{t:"but terror to our spearmen foes.",p:47,x:89,y:829,w:353,h:26},
{t:"Our youths are not its ravagers",p:47,x:89,y:860,w:341,h:26},
{t:"700. nor may the aged with their hand",p:47,x:89,y:892,w:422,h:26},
{t:"destroy this bounty of our land.",p:47,x:89,y:924,w:344,h:26},
{t:"They stand impregnable, are never felled",p:47,x:89,y:955,w:448,h:26},
{t:"but in Athena’s eye’s are held",p:47,x:89,y:987,w:323,h:26},
{t:"sleepless in her grey-eyed stare,",p:47,x:89,y:1019,w:356,h:26},
{t:"as too in Morian Zeus’s care.",p:47,x:89,y:1050,w:313,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:47,x:89,y:1102,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Another praise I have to tell",p:47,x:89,y:1154,w:305,h:26},
{t:"is for our mother city, writ",p:47,x:89,y:1185,w:287,h:26},
{t:"in glory of the son of Cronus,",p:47,x:89,y:1217,w:318,h:26},
{t:"with might of horses, might of sea,",p:47,x:89,y:1249,w:382,h:26},
{t:"44",p:48,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"710. the god Poseidon, such is he",p:48,x:94,y:84,w:367,h:26},
{t:"who to master horse has shown us",p:48,x:94,y:115,w:380,h:26},
{t:"how to keep with iron bit",p:48,x:94,y:147,w:271,h:26},
{t:"their powerful anger in our thrall.",p:48,x:94,y:179,w:363,h:26},
{t:"More prodigal to us as well",p:48,x:94,y:210,w:292,h:26},
{t:"he's given us the oar to meet",p:48,x:94,y:242,w:320,h:26},
{t:"the hand that hauls us over seas,",p:48,x:94,y:274,w:364,h:26},
{t:"giving it a wondrous ease",p:48,x:94,y:305,w:278,h:26},
{t:"to follow on the rise and fall",p:48,x:94,y:337,w:304,h:26},
{t:"of the Nereids' myriad feet.",p:48,x:94,y:369,w:298,h:26},
{t:"End of Stasimon.",p:48,x:94,y:420,w:185,h:26},
{t:"45",p:49,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PART THREE",p:49,x:89,y:114,w:148,h:31},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:49,x:89,y:215,w:116,h:26},
{t:"720. Land above all others praised, you yet",p:49,x:89,y:267,w:473,h:26},
{t:"will have the chance to make those praises good.",p:49,x:89,y:299,w:536,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:49,x:89,y:350,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Why say those words, my child?",p:49,x:89,y:402,w:350,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:49,x:89,y:454,w:116,h:26},
{t:"The likelihood",p:49,x:89,y:505,w:150,h:26},
{t:"is come: here is Creon with his men.",p:49,x:89,y:537,w:400,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:49,x:89,y:589,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I must ask you, kindly elders, once again",p:49,x:89,y:640,w:449,h:26},
{t:"to give me evidence of what was told.",p:49,x:89,y:672,w:413,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:49,x:89,y:724,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Fear not. You have our promise. We are old,",p:49,x:89,y:775,w:484,h:26},
{t:"no doubt, but this our State’s not weak of arm.",p:49,x:89,y:807,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Enter Creon with guards stage right.",p:49,x:89,y:859,w:396,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:49,x:89,y:910,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Old men, my noble friends, you take alarm",p:49,x:89,y:962,w:469,h:26},
{t:"at my approach: I read it in your eyes.",p:49,x:89,y:994,w:424,h:26},
{t:"730. You need not shrink from my approach, devise",p:49,x:89,y:1025,w:566,h:26},
{t:"uncivil words for me. I come with no",p:49,x:89,y:1057,w:399,h:26},
{t:"ill purposes. I’m old like you, and know",p:49,x:89,y:1089,w:429,h:26},
{t:"the city hereabouts will have its powers",p:49,x:89,y:1120,w:430,h:26},
{t:"if any has among these realms of ours.",p:49,x:89,y:1152,w:425,h:26},
{t:"It was for reason of my years that they",p:49,x:89,y:1184,w:427,h:26},
{t:"commissioned me to coax this man, convey",p:49,x:89,y:1215,w:476,h:26},
{t:"him safely back to Thebes, and not as voice",p:49,x:89,y:1247,w:478,h:26},
{t:"46",p:50,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"of one man only but as country’s choice.",p:50,x:94,y:84,w:441,h:26},
{t:"I am his kinsman too, and have to face",p:50,x:94,y:115,w:427,h:26},
{t:"740. with tears the sorrows of his wretched case.",p:50,x:94,y:147,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Hear me now, unhappy Oedipus:",p:50,x:94,y:179,w:359,h:26},
{t:"the Cadmeian people beg return to us.",p:50,x:94,y:210,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Rightfully they call you back, and strive,",p:50,x:94,y:242,w:438,h:26},
{t:"as I do, or be worst of men alive,",p:50,x:94,y:274,w:363,h:26},
{t:"to ease your sufferings, now seeing you",p:50,x:94,y:305,w:434,h:26},
{t:"adrift and wandering as beggars do,",p:50,x:94,y:337,w:393,h:26},
{t:"an outcast with a daughter for support.",p:50,x:94,y:369,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Indeed I’d not foreseen the girl would court",p:50,x:94,y:400,w:475,h:26},
{t:"a misery like this, hold up the frame",p:50,x:94,y:432,w:396,h:26},
{t:"750. of one who has but penury for name.",p:50,x:94,y:464,w:461,h:26},
{t:"A woman ripe for marriage but unwed,",p:50,x:94,y:495,w:423,h:26},
{t:"and prey to rape and violence instead.",p:50,x:94,y:527,w:419,h:26},
{t:"Why must you mortify us, cast this shame",p:50,x:94,y:559,w:460,h:26},
{t:"on you, and on myself and people’s name?",p:50,x:94,y:590,w:467,h:26},
{t:"An outright shame like this cannot be hid",p:50,x:94,y:622,w:448,h:26},
{t:"except by you. So, Oedipus, be bid",p:50,x:94,y:654,w:381,h:26},
{t:"by all our fathers’ deities to roam",p:50,x:94,y:685,w:363,h:26},
{t:"no more, but come to Thebes, our father’s home.",p:50,x:94,y:717,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Respectfully leave Athens. She that nursed",p:50,x:94,y:749,w:467,h:26},
{t:"760. you from antiquity, she claims you first.",p:50,x:94,y:780,w:492,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:50,x:94,y:832,w:100,h:26},
{t:"So speaks the guileful one, whose tongue enacts",p:50,x:94,y:884,w:531,h:26},
{t:"more subtleties than truths are rightful facts.",p:50,x:94,y:915,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Why try those practised skills on me, assert",p:50,x:94,y:947,w:477,h:26},
{t:"the arguments where I’d be sorest hurt?",p:50,x:94,y:979,w:441,h:26},
{t:"In past days when I wronged myself, it’s true",p:50,x:94,y:1010,w:495,h:26},
{t:"I longed for exile but was held by you.",p:50,x:94,y:1042,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Then, when my frenzied grief had spent its force,",p:50,x:94,y:1074,w:537,h:26},
{t:"and I was happy in myself, it was your course",p:50,x:94,y:1105,w:501,h:26},
{t:"to thrust me from my cheerful house and land,",p:50,x:94,y:1137,w:511,h:26},
{t:"770. the ties of kinship scattered out of hand.",p:50,x:94,y:1169,w:499,h:26},
{t:"And so it is again, and now you see",p:50,x:94,y:1200,w:387,h:26},
{t:"this State and kindly people welcome me,",p:50,x:94,y:1232,w:455,h:26},
{t:"47",p:51,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"you’d bear me off again, soft words designed",p:51,x:89,y:84,w:492,h:26},
{t:"to hide the hard. What pleasure can you find",p:51,x:89,y:115,w:486,h:26},
{t:"in feigning kindness where there comes no need?",p:51,x:89,y:147,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Suppose a man refused to even heed",p:51,x:89,y:179,w:406,h:26},
{t:"the what you wanted. Afterwards, and when",p:51,x:89,y:210,w:482,h:26},
{t:"you’d gained your heart’s desire, he then",p:51,x:89,y:242,w:448,h:26},
{t:"pressed home the gift from which all grace had fled.",p:51,x:89,y:274,w:569,h:26},
{t:"780. Would not that kindness be but show instead?",p:51,x:89,y:305,w:558,h:26},
{t:"Yet now is such the gift you offer me,",p:51,x:89,y:337,w:408,h:26},
{t:"good in aspect but a falsity.",p:51,x:89,y:369,w:302,h:26},
{t:"And I will prove you false, that these can hear",p:51,x:89,y:400,w:503,h:26},
{t:"that you are come to take me, nowhere near",p:51,x:89,y:432,w:489,h:26},
{t:"my home, but place me on your borders where",p:51,x:89,y:464,w:514,h:26},
{t:"your Thebes avoids what hurt this land may bear.",p:51,x:89,y:495,w:542,h:26},
{t:"That’s not your legacy, though I will send",p:51,x:89,y:527,w:451,h:26},
{t:"my ghost to haunt your country to the end,",p:51,x:89,y:559,w:474,h:26},
{t:"and for my sons, this is their heritage:",p:51,x:89,y:590,w:420,h:26},
{t:"790. a space to die in only. Yes, I pledge",p:51,x:89,y:622,w:445,h:26},
{t:"that knowing all too well that Thebes has cause",p:51,x:89,y:654,w:516,h:26},
{t:"to know my teachers surer guides than yours:",p:51,x:89,y:685,w:503,h:26},
{t:"for such are Phoebus and his father, Zeus.",p:51,x:89,y:717,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Your tongue is fraudulent. It will produce,",p:51,x:89,y:749,w:454,h:26},
{t:"despite a smoothness whetted as the sword,",p:51,x:89,y:780,w:485,h:26},
{t:"far more calamities than fond accord.",p:51,x:89,y:812,w:407,h:26},
{t:"I waste my words with you. Be gone and leave",p:51,x:89,y:844,w:510,h:26},
{t:"me here in peace. Whatever troubles grieve,",p:51,x:89,y:875,w:485,h:26},
{t:"he lives not badly if he have enough.",p:51,x:89,y:907,w:403,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:51,x:89,y:959,w:77,h:26},
{t:"800. Who’s the most hurt with this childish stuff,",p:51,x:89,y:1010,w:530,h:26},
{t:"you think? It is their speaker you disgrace.",p:51,x:89,y:1042,w:466,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:51,x:89,y:1094,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I am content to see you harm your case",p:51,x:89,y:1145,w:438,h:26},
{t:"with me and in these stranger’s eyes.",p:51,x:89,y:1177,w:409,h:26},
{t:"48",p:52,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CREON",p:52,x:94,y:84,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Why can’t the years conceive to make you wise?",p:52,x:94,y:135,w:528,h:26},
{t:"You bring reproach upon old age’s span.",p:52,x:94,y:167,w:439,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:52,x:94,y:219,w:100,h:26},
{t:"A ready tongue, but still an honest man",p:52,x:94,y:270,w:433,h:26},
{t:"will not find words to plead for every claim.",p:52,x:94,y:302,w:472,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:52,x:94,y:354,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Words too many still may miss their aim.",p:52,x:94,y:405,w:448,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:52,x:94,y:457,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Your words were few then, and advance your cause?",p:52,x:94,y:509,w:575,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:52,x:94,y:560,w:77,h:26},
{t:"810. But not sufficient for poor wits like yours.",p:52,x:94,y:612,w:507,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:52,x:94,y:664,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Now in the name of these good folk, I say",p:52,x:94,y:715,w:456,h:26},
{t:"do not place watches where I mean to stay.",p:52,x:94,y:747,w:477,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:52,x:94,y:799,w:77,h:26},
{t:"It’s these I call on, not on you, whose speech",p:52,x:94,y:850,w:495,h:26},
{t:"has been outrageous, whom I now will teach . . .",p:52,x:94,y:882,w:533,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:52,x:94,y:934,w:100,h:26},
{t:"By taking me, that is, despite my friends?",p:52,x:94,y:985,w:456,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:52,x:94,y:1037,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Yes, in spite of them, you’ll make amends.",p:52,x:94,y:1089,w:465,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:52,x:94,y:1140,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Where’s force to further this gross fantasy?",p:52,x:94,y:1192,w:472,h:26},
{t:"49",p:53,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CREON",p:53,x:89,y:84,w:77,h:26},
{t:"One daughter is already seized by me,",p:53,x:89,y:135,w:419,h:26},
{t:"the other I shall carry off and soon.",p:53,x:89,y:167,w:387,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:53,x:89,y:219,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My daughter?",p:53,x:89,y:270,w:148,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:53,x:89,y:322,w:77,h:26},
{t:"820.  Soon you’ll sing another tune.",p:53,x:89,y:374,w:391,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:53,x:89,y:425,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You have my child?",p:53,x:89,y:477,w:210,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:53,x:89,y:529,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I’ll soon have both.",p:53,x:89,y:580,w:209,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:53,x:89,y:632,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You will not leave me, friends, forget the oath,",p:53,x:89,y:684,w:508,h:26},
{t:"but chase the godless villain off your land?",p:53,x:89,y:715,w:465,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:53,x:89,y:767,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Stranger, leave at once and understand",p:53,x:89,y:819,w:432,h:26},
{t:"how untoward is such rapacity.",p:53,x:89,y:850,w:339,h:26},
{t:"CREON (to guards)",p:53,x:89,y:902,w:207,h:26},
{t:"It’s time to carry off the girl if she",p:53,x:89,y:954,w:370,h:26},
{t:"won’t go of her free-will. Men: to the task.",p:53,x:89,y:985,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Guards approach Antigone.",p:53,x:89,y:1037,w:296,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:53,x:89,y:1089,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Then all is lost. Where can I go, or ask",p:53,x:89,y:1140,w:420,h:26},
{t:"of men or gods?",p:53,x:89,y:1172,w:176,h:26},
{t:"50",p:54,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:54,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Stranger, tell us you . . .",p:54,x:94,y:135,w:269,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:54,x:94,y:187,w:77,h:26},
{t:"830. I will not touch the man. The girl will do.",p:54,x:94,y:239,w:499,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:54,x:94,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Elders!",p:54,x:94,y:342,w:74,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:54,x:94,y:394,w:93,h:26},
{t:"We say you make a gross mistake.",p:54,x:94,y:445,w:380,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:54,x:94,y:497,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Not so.",p:54,x:94,y:549,w:77,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:54,x:94,y:600,w:93,h:26},
{t:"How’s that?",p:54,x:94,y:652,w:127,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:54,x:94,y:704,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Mine is all I take.",p:54,x:94,y:755,w:187,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:54,x:94,y:807,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:54,x:94,y:859,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Athens, help!",p:54,x:94,y:910,w:144,h:26},
{t:"Guards pinion Antigone’s arms.",p:54,x:94,y:962,w:341,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:54,x:94,y:1014,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What would you do? My lord, with us?",p:54,x:94,y:1065,w:414,h:26},
{t:"A fight’s not wise or generous:",p:54,x:94,y:1097,w:334,h:26},
{t:"our strength and yours we soon shall know.",p:54,x:94,y:1129,w:476,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:54,x:94,y:1180,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Stand back from me.",p:54,x:94,y:1232,w:229,h:26},
{t:"51",p:55,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:55,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"But first let go.",p:55,x:89,y:135,w:163,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:55,x:89,y:187,w:77,h:26},
{t:"If I am touched, it will be war.",p:55,x:89,y:239,w:331,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:55,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You see.",p:55,x:89,y:342,w:92,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:55,x:89,y:394,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Unhand the girl, or more . . .",p:55,x:89,y:445,w:316,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:55,x:89,y:497,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I’m not some slave your words would slur.",p:55,x:89,y:549,w:464,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:55,x:89,y:600,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Desist.",p:55,x:89,y:652,w:74,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:55,x:89,y:704,w:77,h:26},
{t:"840. Now men, be off with her.",p:55,x:89,y:755,w:341,h:26},
{t:"Guards haul Antigone stage right.",p:55,x:89,y:807,w:367,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:55,x:89,y:859,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Athens help us, reinforce",p:55,x:89,y:910,w:271,h:26},
{t:"a Colonus betrayed by force.",p:55,x:89,y:942,w:313,h:26},
{t:"Hasten, kinsmen, to the fight.",p:55,x:89,y:974,w:326,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:55,x:89,y:1025,w:116,h:26},
{t:"They drag me off, my friends, this can’t be right.",p:55,x:89,y:1077,w:532,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:55,x:89,y:1129,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Where are you, daughter?",p:55,x:89,y:1180,w:285,h:26},
{t:"52",p:56,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:56,x:94,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"They’re taking me.",p:56,x:94,y:135,w:204,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:56,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Hold out your hands.",p:56,x:94,y:239,w:229,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:56,x:94,y:290,w:116,h:26},
{t:"I can’t: I am not free.",p:56,x:94,y:342,w:238,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:56,x:94,y:394,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Away with her.",p:56,x:94,y:445,w:162,h:26},
{t:"Guards haul off Antigone.",p:56,x:94,y:497,w:278,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:56,x:94,y:549,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Dear gods, what shall I do?",p:56,x:94,y:600,w:298,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:56,x:94,y:652,w:77,h:26},
{t:"No more will these two women serve for you",p:56,x:94,y:704,w:487,h:26},
{t:"as prop for your frail steps. If pride intends",p:56,x:94,y:735,w:471,h:26},
{t:"850 a triumph over country and your friends,",p:56,x:94,y:767,w:493,h:26},
{t:"then very well it is that love and fate",p:56,x:94,y:799,w:401,h:26},
{t:"should make this prince the servant of his State.",p:56,x:94,y:830,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Triumph if you wish, but you should know",p:56,x:94,y:862,w:456,h:26},
{t:"how unproductive is that rage you show,",p:56,x:94,y:894,w:443,h:26},
{t:"that bane of anger that you can’t forswear.",p:56,x:94,y:925,w:469,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:56,x:94,y:977,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Stop where you are, now stranger.",p:56,x:94,y:1029,w:380,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:56,x:94,y:1080,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Have a care.",p:56,x:94,y:1132,w:136,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:56,x:94,y:1184,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Give up the girls and leave, we say again.",p:56,x:94,y:1235,w:456,h:26},
{t:"53",p:57,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CREON",p:57,x:89,y:84,w:77,h:26},
{t:"You’d give my city greater captives then?",p:57,x:89,y:135,w:450,h:26},
{t:"I’ll have much more than daughters if I can.",p:57,x:89,y:167,w:482,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:57,x:89,y:219,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What more is that?",p:57,x:89,y:270,w:208,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:57,x:89,y:322,w:77,h:26},
{t:"860. I’ll carry off this man.",p:57,x:89,y:374,w:292,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:57,x:89,y:425,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Brave words.",p:57,x:89,y:477,w:142,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:57,x:89,y:529,w:77,h:26},
{t:"And acted on, with actions seen.",p:57,x:89,y:580,w:354,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:57,x:89,y:632,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Unless our country’s sovereign intervene.",p:57,x:89,y:684,w:451,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:57,x:89,y:735,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Listen, see, see, he’d take me now.",p:57,x:89,y:787,w:386,h:26},
{t:"CREON.",p:57,x:89,y:839,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Be quiet.",p:57,x:89,y:890,w:97,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:57,x:89,y:942,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I ask the Goddesses allow",p:57,x:89,y:994,w:283,h:26},
{t:"their suppliant to utter one more curse.",p:57,x:89,y:1025,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Since the miscreant has gone to worse",p:57,x:89,y:1057,w:421,h:26},
{t:"and taken those who gave their sight to me,",p:57,x:89,y:1089,w:483,h:26},
{t:"now to the Sun-god I will make this plea:",p:57,x:89,y:1120,w:452,h:26},
{t:"that you and Thebes’ whole country may decline",p:57,x:89,y:1152,w:527,h:26},
{t:"870. into an old age crabbed and harsh as mine.",p:57,x:89,y:1184,w:530,h:26},
{t:"54",p:58,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CREON",p:58,x:94,y:84,w:77,h:26},
{t:"You see then, men, what anger breeds.",p:58,x:94,y:135,w:429,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:58,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Of course they see it: wrongs were deeds,",p:58,x:94,y:239,w:460,h:26},
{t:"but vengeance for them is a breath untold.",p:58,x:94,y:270,w:467,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:58,x:94,y:322,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I’ll not contain my rage. Though I be old",p:58,x:94,y:374,w:441,h:26},
{t:"and single-handed, I will have this man.",p:58,x:94,y:405,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Creon approaches Oedipus.",p:58,x:94,y:457,w:298,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:58,x:94,y:509,w:525,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:58,x:94,y:560,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You won’t.",p:58,x:94,y:612,w:114,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:58,x:94,y:664,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What a boldness, stranger, brought",p:58,x:94,y:715,w:386,h:26},
{t:"with you, to think such actions can",p:58,x:94,y:747,w:378,h:26},
{t:"achieve the purposes you sought.",p:58,x:94,y:779,w:366,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:58,x:94,y:830,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I can.",p:58,x:94,y:882,w:62,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:58,x:94,y:934,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then Athens’ ruin is in sight.",p:58,x:94,y:985,w:311,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:58,x:94,y:1037,w:77,h:26},
{t:"880. With justice weakness always conquers might.",p:58,x:94,y:1089,w:561,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:58,x:94,y:1140,w:100,h:26},
{t:"You hear his words?",p:58,x:94,y:1192,w:218,h:26},
{t:"55",p:59,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:59,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"But not what words begot.",p:59,x:89,y:135,w:289,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:59,x:89,y:187,w:77,h:26},
{t:"It’s true that Zeus knows, but you do not.",p:59,x:89,y:239,w:456,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:59,x:89,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Such insolence.",p:59,x:89,y:342,w:169,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:59,x:89,y:394,w:77,h:26},
{t:"And one that you must bear.",p:59,x:89,y:445,w:313,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:59,x:89,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"People, rulers of the land,",p:59,x:89,y:549,w:281,h:26},
{t:"come with speed on every hand",p:59,x:89,y:580,w:347,h:26},
{t:"quick now, lest they cross the border.",p:59,x:89,y:612,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Enter Theseus with armed men, stage right.",p:59,x:89,y:664,w:479,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:59,x:89,y:715,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What is this wretched tumult and from where",p:59,x:89,y:767,w:493,h:26},
{t:"that stops attendance on the sea-god’s altar,",p:59,x:89,y:799,w:489,h:26},
{t:"the lord of Colonus? I have retraced",p:59,x:89,y:830,w:391,h:26},
{t:"890. my steps immediately and come in haste.",p:59,x:89,y:862,w:512,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:59,x:89,y:914,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Dear friend, I recognize your voice. You see",p:59,x:89,y:965,w:478,h:26},
{t:"a gross injustice has been done to me.",p:59,x:89,y:997,w:421,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:59,x:89,y:1049,w:102,h:26},
{t:"And who has ventured on this desperate course?",p:59,x:89,y:1100,w:530,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:59,x:89,y:1152,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Creon is the man, who’s seized by force",p:59,x:89,y:1204,w:434,h:26},
{t:"my own two daughters who were life to me.",p:59,x:89,y:1235,w:479,h:26},
{t:"56",p:60,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:60,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"This man?",p:60,x:94,y:135,w:111,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:60,x:94,y:187,w:100,h:26},
{t:"That is the case, with brevity.",p:60,x:94,y:239,w:323,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS (to his men)",p:60,x:94,y:290,w:245,h:26},
{t:"Then hasten to the altars, one of you,",p:60,x:94,y:342,w:411,h:26},
{t:"command them leave the offerings and do",p:60,x:94,y:374,w:461,h:26},
{t:"what now is needed. Haste by horse or feet",p:60,x:94,y:405,w:474,h:26},
{t:"900. toward the neighbourhood where pathways meet",p:60,x:94,y:437,w:590,h:26},
{t:"in case those girls be lost to us, and I",p:60,x:94,y:469,w:410,h:26},
{t:"before my guest must shamefully deny",p:60,x:94,y:500,w:425,h:26},
{t:"my word undone by force. Go quickly now.",p:60,x:94,y:532,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Exit soldier stage right.",p:60,x:94,y:584,w:252,h:26},
{t:"And as for Creon here, if I showed how",p:60,x:94,y:635,w:426,h:26},
{t:"my anger can be visited, he’d not escape",p:60,x:94,y:667,w:447,h:26},
{t:"without some tribulation. Laws can shape",p:60,x:94,y:699,w:452,h:26},
{t:"the matter though.",p:60,x:94,y:730,w:206,h:26},
{t:"(to Creon)",p:60,x:94,y:782,w:113,h:26},
{t:"So know you’ll not be loosed",p:60,x:94,y:834,w:312,h:26},
{t:"until those girls return and are produced",p:60,x:94,y:865,w:440,h:26},
{t:"to me. Your actions are a grave disgrace",p:60,x:94,y:897,w:441,h:26},
{t:"910. against my honour and your country’s race.",p:60,x:94,y:929,w:533,h:26},
{t:"We are a state that honours justice, more,",p:60,x:94,y:960,w:462,h:26},
{t:"will sanction nothing that’s beside the law.",p:60,x:94,y:992,w:462,h:26},
{t:"In coming here you’ve set those rights aside",p:60,x:94,y:1024,w:484,h:26},
{t:"and made an inroad on them, rough and wide.",p:60,x:94,y:1055,w:507,h:26},
{t:"By taking them you’ve made yourself be seen",p:60,x:94,y:1087,w:499,h:26},
{t:"as some untutored brigand, where I’ve been",p:60,x:94,y:1119,w:484,h:26},
{t:"a thing of no importance, the whole place manned",p:60,x:94,y:1150,w:548,h:26},
{t:"by underlings who could not make a stand.",p:60,x:94,y:1182,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Not from Thebes comes such discourtesy.",p:60,x:94,y:1214,w:454,h:26},
{t:"920. She does not breed unrighteous sons, nor see",p:60,x:94,y:1245,w:557,h:26},
{t:"57",p:61,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"with pleasure such crude banditry. Askance",p:61,x:89,y:84,w:473,h:26},
{t:"the gods will look on those poor suppliants",p:61,x:89,y:115,w:465,h:26},
{t:"who are mere girls in truth. In Thebes I’d not",p:61,x:89,y:147,w:494,h:26},
{t:"pursue freebooting ways unless I’d got",p:61,x:89,y:179,w:422,h:26},
{t:"some sanction of your king or State. I would",p:61,x:89,y:210,w:485,h:26},
{t:"behave as any well-bred stranger should.",p:61,x:89,y:242,w:451,h:26},
{t:"You shame a city that deserves it not,",p:61,x:89,y:274,w:413,h:26},
{t:"which is your own, as well, a shameful blot",p:61,x:89,y:305,w:468,h:26},
{t:"on one advanced in years, whose fullness brings",p:61,x:89,y:337,w:526,h:26},
{t:"930. no wise awareness of its better things.",p:61,x:89,y:369,w:476,h:26},
{t:"I’ve said it once, but now I shall repeat",p:61,x:89,y:400,w:427,h:26},
{t:"myself to make my meaning that complete:",p:61,x:89,y:432,w:478,h:26},
{t:"those women shall be brought to us with speed,",p:61,x:89,y:464,w:523,h:26},
{t:"that is, immediately, and you will heed",p:61,x:89,y:495,w:423,h:26},
{t:"the words that I here speak with force. Refuse —",p:61,x:89,y:527,w:534,h:26},
{t:"you’ll stay the guest with us you didn’t choose.",p:61,x:89,y:559,w:512,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:61,x:89,y:610,w:93,h:26},
{t:"So see then, stranger, from a city graced",p:61,x:89,y:662,w:449,h:26},
{t:"with justice how your actions stand misplaced.",p:61,x:89,y:694,w:507,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:61,x:89,y:745,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I never thought this city lacked its men",p:61,x:89,y:797,w:428,h:26},
{t:"940. of fight or counsel, Theseus. If then",p:61,x:89,y:829,w:446,h:26},
{t:"I acted overbearingly, I thought",p:61,x:89,y:860,w:348,h:26},
{t:"that never would its citizens be caught",p:61,x:89,y:892,w:420,h:26},
{t:"by argument to keep against my will",p:61,x:89,y:924,w:399,h:26},
{t:"this erring kin of mine. Indeed I’m still",p:61,x:89,y:955,w:421,h:26},
{t:"persuaded they’ll give back this reprobate,",p:61,x:89,y:987,w:465,h:26},
{t:"a godless parricide, polluting State,",p:61,x:89,y:1019,w:386,h:26},
{t:"the husband marrying who was the son.",p:61,x:89,y:1050,w:438,h:26},
{t:"And more unlikely still that anyone",p:61,x:89,y:1082,w:380,h:26},
{t:"who benefited from Mount Ares’ share",p:61,x:89,y:1114,w:416,h:26},
{t:"950. of wisdom through these famous lands would care",p:61,x:89,y:1145,w:604,h:26},
{t:"to give a home to wanderers. As such",p:61,x:89,y:1177,w:411,h:26},
{t:"I hunted down the prize, and would have much",p:61,x:89,y:1209,w:515,h:26},
{t:"refrained but for his curses, wrought on me",p:61,x:89,y:1240,w:474,h:26},
{t:"58",p:62,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"and mine, that gave my act authority.",p:62,x:94,y:84,w:415,h:26},
{t:"Anger has no age to bridle it but death,",p:62,x:94,y:115,w:430,h:26},
{t:"and those who lack all anger have no breath.",p:62,x:94,y:147,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Do as you please with me. My case is just",p:62,x:94,y:179,w:456,h:26},
{t:"but has no allies here. I’ll do as must,",p:62,x:94,y:210,w:412,h:26},
{t:"despite my age, to answer deed with deed.",p:62,x:94,y:242,w:470,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:62,x:94,y:294,w:100,h:26},
{t:"960. Though shamelessly you strike at me, concede",p:62,x:94,y:345,w:566,h:26},
{t:"that equally that taunt of age must fall",p:62,x:94,y:377,w:421,h:26},
{t:"on you. True: bloodshed, incest, sorrow: all",p:62,x:94,y:409,w:477,h:26},
{t:"you have accused me of, and worse, which I",p:62,x:94,y:440,w:485,h:26},
{t:"have borne without complaint, nor will deny",p:62,x:94,y:472,w:479,h:26},
{t:"the sins and errors of this hateful house",p:62,x:94,y:504,w:435,h:26},
{t:"of which I’m offspring and the lawful spouse",p:62,x:94,y:535,w:482,h:26},
{t:"to what the gods may do to us or hold,",p:62,x:94,y:567,w:424,h:26},
{t:"which is their birthright with us from of old.",p:62,x:94,y:599,w:474,h:26},
{t:"But take me singly, as a man, you’ll find",p:62,x:94,y:630,w:440,h:26},
{t:"970. no sin in me, but only troubled mind.",p:62,x:94,y:662,w:462,h:26},
{t:"If prophecy had filled my father’s ears",p:62,x:94,y:694,w:416,h:26},
{t:"with doubtful whisperings that he should fear",p:62,x:94,y:725,w:492,h:26},
{t:"his termination in some filial strife —",p:62,x:94,y:757,w:400,h:26},
{t:"why should he care who had no son or wife?",p:62,x:94,y:789,w:483,h:26},
{t:"Or I who had that retribution’s name",p:62,x:94,y:820,w:400,h:26},
{t:"should now plead guilty or be given blame,",p:62,x:94,y:852,w:469,h:26},
{t:"in meeting one unknown whose son I was",p:62,x:94,y:884,w:456,h:26},
{t:"and killing wantonly, you say, because",p:62,x:94,y:915,w:420,h:26},
{t:"I did not know that blood was darkly hued?",p:62,x:94,y:947,w:472,h:26},
{t:"980. My mother, your own sister even, you’d",p:62,x:94,y:979,w:490,h:26},
{t:"require me curse all decency to tell",p:62,x:94,y:1010,w:383,h:26},
{t:"of unclean couplings, and of sins as well.",p:62,x:94,y:1042,w:445,h:26},
{t:"She was my mother, true, and misery",p:62,x:94,y:1074,w:414,h:26},
{t:"that I knew nothing of it, nor did she.",p:62,x:94,y:1105,w:409,h:26},
{t:"To bear the children of the son she had",p:62,x:94,y:1137,w:428,h:26},
{t:"was gross and pitiful. In no way glad",p:62,x:94,y:1169,w:401,h:26},
{t:"I took the wife awarded, had no choice,",p:62,x:94,y:1200,w:431,h:26},
{t:"and not as you are now, who freely voice",p:62,x:94,y:1232,w:448,h:26},
{t:"59",p:63,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"these crimes to cast them sternly in my teeth.",p:63,x:89,y:84,w:504,h:26},
{t:"990. I am not guilty of such crimes beneath",p:63,x:89,y:115,w:478,h:26},
{t:"that forced-on sanctity of marriage bed",p:63,x:89,y:147,w:428,h:26},
{t:"nor of the parricide that you have said",p:63,x:89,y:179,w:417,h:26},
{t:"substantiates the evil I have done.",p:63,x:89,y:210,w:376,h:26},
{t:"For tell me now: suppose you were the son",p:63,x:89,y:242,w:471,h:26},
{t:"who met his unknown father on some road",p:63,x:89,y:274,w:467,h:26},
{t:"and was accosted by him, threatened, owed",p:63,x:89,y:305,w:480,h:26},
{t:"some courtesy but given none, must try",p:63,x:89,y:337,w:437,h:26},
{t:"by arms to settle with him or would die,",p:63,x:89,y:369,w:435,h:26},
{t:"what would you do but I did: arm and fight.",p:63,x:89,y:400,w:479,h:26},
{t:"1000. In this the gods compelled me out of spite",p:63,x:89,y:432,w:531,h:26},
{t:"that, he, my father, were he now to live",p:63,x:89,y:464,w:435,h:26},
{t:"would mark the merit in it and forgive.",p:63,x:89,y:495,w:422,h:26},
{t:"How plausibly you smile and stir again",p:63,x:89,y:527,w:418,h:26},
{t:"the argument in decent, trusting men.",p:63,x:89,y:559,w:417,h:26},
{t:"To heap fresh horrors on me in my shame",p:63,x:89,y:590,w:459,h:26},
{t:"you flatter Theseus and belaud his name,",p:63,x:89,y:622,w:450,h:26},
{t:"but carry off my daughters from a land",p:63,x:89,y:654,w:425,h:26},
{t:"that honours justice foremost and will stand",p:63,x:89,y:685,w:479,h:26},
{t:"for this poor traveller that you would kill.",p:63,x:89,y:717,w:446,h:26},
{t:"1010. Entreat some other place to serve your will:",p:63,x:89,y:749,w:549,h:26},
{t:"for this I conjure from the sacred ground",p:63,x:89,y:780,w:446,h:26},
{t:"of ancient goddesses still sleeping round,",p:63,x:89,y:812,w:448,h:26},
{t:"that you will see the men who make a State.",p:63,x:89,y:844,w:488,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:63,x:89,y:895,w:93,h:26},
{t:"An honest man, my lord, beset by great",p:63,x:89,y:947,w:436,h:26},
{t:"misfortunes, true, but who deserves support.",p:63,x:89,y:979,w:493,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:63,x:89,y:1030,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Why are we talking when the girls are sought,",p:63,x:89,y:1082,w:501,h:26},
{t:"and captors making off, soon lost to view?",p:63,x:89,y:1114,w:461,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:63,x:89,y:1165,w:77,h:26},
{t:"What would you have an unarmed man now do?",p:63,x:89,y:1217,w:526,h:26},
{t:"60",p:64,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:64,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"At least to show us where the women are,",p:64,x:94,y:135,w:460,h:26},
{t:"1020. but if their captors are in flight, and far",p:64,x:94,y:167,w:497,h:26},
{t:"away, then tell us too and spare our pains.",p:64,x:94,y:199,w:467,h:26},
{t:"That chase is for the others: but such gains",p:64,x:94,y:230,w:473,h:26},
{t:"they’ll never get across our borders, not",p:64,x:94,y:262,w:438,h:26},
{t:"to thank their gods for.  So we go, and what",p:64,x:94,y:294,w:484,h:26},
{t:"they think they’ve seized, entrammels them in fact",p:64,x:94,y:325,w:555,h:26},
{t:"when fate has caught the fowler in the act,",p:64,x:94,y:357,w:466,h:26},
{t:"and winnings by deception soon are spent.",p:64,x:94,y:389,w:466,h:26},
{t:"You have no allies here, though such extent",p:64,x:94,y:420,w:478,h:26},
{t:"of violence is not borne alone but needs",p:64,x:94,y:452,w:435,h:26},
{t:"1030. accomplices and help. I know these deeds",p:64,x:94,y:484,w:529,h:26},
{t:"will have some backer if not forced on you,",p:64,x:94,y:515,w:469,h:26},
{t:"whom I must now search out, lest some undo",p:64,x:94,y:547,w:499,h:26},
{t:"the state and by one man may weaken it.",p:64,x:94,y:579,w:455,h:26},
{t:"You understand my words, or do they sit",p:64,x:94,y:610,w:445,h:26},
{t:"as in your confidence when this was planned?",p:64,x:94,y:642,w:498,h:26},
{t:"CREON",p:64,x:94,y:694,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I would not argue here, which is your land,",p:64,x:94,y:745,w:469,h:26},
{t:"but in my own place I’d know what to do.",p:64,x:94,y:777,w:452,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:64,x:94,y:829,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Threaten as you wish. We go, and you,",p:64,x:94,y:880,w:425,h:26},
{t:"now, Oedipus, can be assured that naught",p:64,x:94,y:912,w:462,h:26},
{t:"1040. except my death will stop the women caught",p:64,x:94,y:944,w:558,h:26},
{t:"from being rescued and returned to you.",p:64,x:94,y:975,w:443,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:64,x:94,y:1027,w:100,h:26},
{t:"May Theseus, your nobleness have due",p:64,x:94,y:1079,w:427,h:26},
{t:"from heaven, such your royal care for me.",p:64,x:94,y:1110,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Soldiers march off Creon.",p:64,x:94,y:1162,w:277,h:26},
{t:"Stasimon (stationary choral poem)",p:64,x:94,y:1214,w:378,h:26},
{t:"61",p:65,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:65,x:89,y:84,w:525,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:65,x:89,y:135,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Oh to be where enemy",p:65,x:89,y:187,w:248,h:26},
{t:"is wheeled about and brought to bay,",p:65,x:89,y:219,w:407,h:26},
{t:"triumphantly to join the fray",p:65,x:89,y:250,w:309,h:26},
{t:"in battle clangour where before",p:65,x:89,y:282,w:340,h:26},
{t:"along Apollo’s haunted shore",p:65,x:89,y:314,w:314,h:26},
{t:"in torch processions, secrecy,",p:65,x:89,y:345,w:321,h:26},
{t:"1050. the Goddesses will make their rites",p:65,x:89,y:377,w:452,h:26},
{t:"for mortal men, and on whose sights",p:65,x:89,y:409,w:401,h:26},
{t:"of Eumolpidae priests have laid",p:65,x:89,y:440,w:340,h:26},
{t:"the seal of silence. There for us",p:65,x:89,y:472,w:342,h:26},
{t:"the war-awaking Theseus",p:65,x:89,y:504,w:278,h:26},
{t:"soon will have those captives stayed",p:65,x:89,y:535,w:397,h:26},
{t:"within our borders, as the fights",p:65,x:89,y:567,w:349,h:26},
{t:"join war cry of the battle-brave",p:65,x:89,y:599,w:340,h:26},
{t:"to show themselves as strong to save.",p:65,x:89,y:630,w:419,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:65,x:89,y:682,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps they soon will near the fields",p:65,x:89,y:734,w:406,h:26},
{t:"1060. the west of Oea’s snowy height,",p:65,x:89,y:765,w:417,h:26},
{t:"borne of horses in their flight",p:65,x:89,y:797,w:317,h:26},
{t:"or in their chariots at speed.",p:65,x:89,y:829,w:309,h:26},
{t:"Creon, now defeated, yields",p:65,x:89,y:860,w:303,h:26},
{t:"to the swords of Colonus,",p:65,x:89,y:892,w:277,h:26},
{t:"and followers of Theseus",p:65,x:89,y:924,w:269,h:26},
{t:"show their mettle and their might",p:65,x:89,y:955,w:365,h:26},
{t:"in horseman flashing from above.",p:65,x:89,y:987,w:366,h:26},
{t:"There sparkles steel in bit and lead",p:65,x:89,y:1019,w:381,h:26},
{t:"but now the slackened rein is seen",p:65,x:89,y:1050,w:376,h:26},
{t:"1070. and men applaud the chivalry:",p:65,x:89,y:1082,w:403,h:26},
{t:"Athena’s gift, who is their queen,",p:65,x:89,y:1114,w:361,h:26},
{t:"and the earth-engirdling sea-",p:65,x:89,y:1145,w:319,h:26},
{t:"god, son of Rhea’s fondest love.",p:65,x:89,y:1177,w:349,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:65,x:89,y:1229,w:525,h:26},
{t:"62",p:66,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Are we now in battle cast",p:66,x:94,y:84,w:274,h:26},
{t:"is the fighting joined at last?",p:66,x:94,y:115,w:311,h:26},
{t:"It seems somehow my soul would seek",p:66,x:94,y:147,w:426,h:26},
{t:"to be with women sorely pressed,",p:66,x:94,y:179,w:367,h:26},
{t:"to meet them as the battles speak",p:66,x:94,y:210,w:374,h:26},
{t:"of by a kinsman hard oppressed.",p:66,x:94,y:242,w:357,h:26},
{t:"1080. On this day will Zeus now make",p:66,x:94,y:274,w:416,h:26},
{t:"some miracle. If I could take",p:66,x:94,y:305,w:314,h:26},
{t:"the form of dove aloft I’d gaze",p:66,x:94,y:337,w:332,h:26},
{t:"as clouds do on the splendid fray",p:66,x:94,y:369,w:359,h:26},
{t:"and see the fight, how matters lay",p:66,x:94,y:400,w:374,h:26},
{t:"between them on this day of days.",p:66,x:94,y:432,w:377,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:66,x:94,y:484,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Hear me, ruler of the skies,",p:66,x:94,y:535,w:299,h:26},
{t:"powerful, ever-sighted Zeus:",p:66,x:94,y:567,w:315,h:26},
{t:"let our citizens produce",p:66,x:94,y:599,w:253,h:26},
{t:"the victory that wins the prize.",p:66,x:94,y:630,w:334,h:26},
{t:"1090. Grant Athena Pallas here,",p:66,x:94,y:662,w:349,h:26},
{t:"and Apollo with his sister",p:66,x:94,y:694,w:272,h:26},
{t:"following the fleeting deer,",p:66,x:94,y:725,w:291,h:26},
{t:"coming strength as will assist her:",p:66,x:94,y:757,w:373,h:26},
{t:"both of them, a double stand",p:66,x:94,y:789,w:317,h:26},
{t:"by those who look on heart and land.",p:66,x:94,y:820,w:405,h:26},
{t:"End of Stasimon",p:66,x:94,y:872,w:177,h:26},
{t:"63",p:67,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PART FO UR",p:67,x:89,y:114,w:154,h:31},
{t:"CHORUS",p:67,x:89,y:215,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You need not tax us with false prophecy.",p:67,x:89,y:267,w:444,h:26},
{t:"We see the rescued women: thankfully",p:67,x:89,y:299,w:423,h:26},
{t:"they’re with their escort and are drawing near.",p:67,x:89,y:330,w:508,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:67,x:89,y:382,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Where, how? What do you say?",p:67,x:89,y:434,w:342,h:26},
{t:"Enter Theseus with Antigone and Ismene stage right, followed by",p:67,x:89,y:485,w:710,h:26},
{t:"soldiers.",p:67,x:89,y:517,w:90,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:67,x:89,y:569,w:116,h:26},
{t:"My father, dear,",p:67,x:89,y:620,w:175,h:26},
{t:"1100. with eyes restored, you could have witnessed here",p:67,x:89,y:652,w:622,h:26},
{t:"what noble Theseus for us has earned.",p:67,x:89,y:684,w:422,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:67,x:89,y:735,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My child; it’s true, you have come back.",p:67,x:89,y:787,w:437,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:67,x:89,y:839,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Returned",p:67,x:89,y:890,w:99,h:26},
{t:"by Theseus and his valiant followers.",p:67,x:89,y:922,w:400,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:67,x:89,y:974,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Come to your father’s arms that I may nurse",p:67,x:89,y:1025,w:490,h:26},
{t:"a child’s embrace again that I would know.",p:67,x:89,y:1057,w:467,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:67,x:89,y:1109,w:116,h:26},
{t:"A yearning I am anxious to bestow.",p:67,x:89,y:1160,w:387,h:26},
{t:"64",p:68,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:68,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Where are you then?",p:68,x:94,y:135,w:228,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:68,x:94,y:187,w:116,h:26},
{t:"It’s both, we both have flown.",p:68,x:94,y:239,w:327,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:68,x:94,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My precious darlings.",p:68,x:94,y:342,w:231,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:68,x:94,y:394,w:116,h:26},
{t:"A tender father loves his own.",p:68,x:94,y:445,w:326,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:68,x:94,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Props of age.",p:68,x:94,y:549,w:143,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:68,x:94,y:600,w:116,h:26},
{t:"And sharers of your sorrow.",p:68,x:94,y:652,w:303,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:68,x:94,y:704,w:100,h:26},
{t:"1110. I have my dear ones and if tomorrow",p:68,x:94,y:755,w:476,h:26},
{t:"death should come to me I should not stand",p:68,x:94,y:787,w:482,h:26},
{t:"entirely wretched with you both at hand.",p:68,x:94,y:819,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Come, press close to me, and after rest",p:68,x:94,y:850,w:432,h:26},
{t:"from all the travails of this latest test.",p:68,x:94,y:882,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Then tell me your adventures, but in short,",p:68,x:94,y:914,w:469,h:26},
{t:"for brevity is as only young girls ought.",p:68,x:94,y:945,w:428,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:68,x:94,y:997,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Our rescuer is here and can be heard,",p:68,x:94,y:1049,w:414,h:26},
{t:"for brevity I need not say a word.",p:68,x:94,y:1080,w:367,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:68,x:94,y:1132,w:100,h:26},
{t:"In fondness for my children that you see,",p:68,x:94,y:1184,w:450,h:26},
{t:"1120. I hope you will not think it ill of me",p:68,x:94,y:1215,w:452,h:26},
{t:"to have this joy of them so boldly shown.",p:68,x:94,y:1247,w:450,h:26},
{t:"65",p:69,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"The praise is yours, I know, and yours alone",p:69,x:89,y:84,w:484,h:26},
{t:"who were their sole deliverer, a man",p:69,x:89,y:115,w:399,h:26},
{t:"who may receive from heaven what I plan",p:69,x:89,y:147,w:459,h:26},
{t:"for this, your city, and its people too.",p:69,x:89,y:179,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Among all humankind it’s foremost you",p:69,x:89,y:210,w:428,h:26},
{t:"who fear the heavens and in fairness show",p:69,x:89,y:242,w:464,h:26},
{t:"that lies need not be uttered. This I know",p:69,x:89,y:274,w:451,h:26},
{t:"and speak in ever gratitude for such.",p:69,x:89,y:305,w:402,h:26},
{t:"1130. Stretch out your right hand, king, that I may touch",p:69,x:89,y:337,w:626,h:26},
{t:"it, reverently as well may kiss your cheek.",p:69,x:89,y:369,w:460,h:26},
{t:"What do I say? No, no, I shouldn’t speak",p:69,x:89,y:400,w:445,h:26},
{t:"of such improprieties: a wretched stain",p:69,x:89,y:432,w:426,h:26},
{t:"deprives me of that nearness I’d obtain.",p:69,x:89,y:464,w:437,h:26},
{t:"I’ll not allow it, no, for such calamity",p:69,x:89,y:495,w:399,h:26},
{t:"must bear its burdens singly as they be.",p:69,x:89,y:527,w:438,h:26},
{t:"But let me stand now in the care and power",p:69,x:89,y:559,w:478,h:26},
{t:"that you’ve so loyally given me this hour.",p:69,x:89,y:590,w:451,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:69,x:89,y:642,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Such love is natural. I’d not condemn",p:69,x:89,y:694,w:408,h:26},
{t:"1140. your wanting first and most to talk to them.",p:69,x:89,y:725,w:549,h:26},
{t:"They are your children, after all, and pay",p:69,x:89,y:757,w:446,h:26},
{t:"more heed to what you have or need to say.",p:69,x:89,y:789,w:486,h:26},
{t:"That behaviour’s surely in the normal reach",p:69,x:89,y:820,w:474,h:26},
{t:"and I’d be better known for deeds than speech.",p:69,x:89,y:852,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Of this, old friend, you now have proof. My oath",p:69,x:89,y:884,w:524,h:26},
{t:"I have fulfilled to you and brought back both",p:69,x:89,y:915,w:486,h:26},
{t:"your daughters, and unhurt despite the threats.",p:69,x:89,y:947,w:520,h:26},
{t:"In case the progress of the fight begets",p:69,x:89,y:979,w:430,h:26},
{t:"some boasts, your daughters here can tell you all.",p:69,x:89,y:1010,w:546,h:26},
{t:"1150. But there’s another matter I recall",p:69,x:89,y:1042,w:443,h:26},
{t:"on coming here, and I must ask on what",p:69,x:89,y:1074,w:442,h:26},
{t:"may be but trivial, of course, but not",p:69,x:89,y:1105,w:402,h:26},
{t:"on that account beneath a man’s concern.",p:69,x:89,y:1137,w:458,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:69,x:89,y:1189,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What is it, son of Aegeus? I’d learn",p:69,x:89,y:1240,w:381,h:26},
{t:"66",p:70,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"the thing, unknown to me, that now falls due.",p:70,x:94,y:84,w:499,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:70,x:94,y:135,w:102,h:26},
{t:"A man, no countryman but kin to you",p:70,x:94,y:187,w:409,h:26},
{t:"it’s said has lately come to beg the care",p:70,x:94,y:219,w:433,h:26},
{t:"of great Poseidon, at his altar where",p:70,x:94,y:250,w:396,h:26},
{t:"I was at sacrifice when called away.",p:70,x:94,y:282,w:390,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:70,x:94,y:334,w:100,h:26},
{t:"1160. What need and land is his? What does he say?",p:70,x:94,y:385,w:574,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:70,x:94,y:437,w:102,h:26},
{t:"I only know it’s you he’s waiting for:",p:70,x:94,y:489,w:397,h:26},
{t:"a word or two and he’ll not trouble more.",p:70,x:94,y:520,w:449,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:70,x:94,y:572,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But why? A suppliant means something grave.",p:70,x:94,y:624,w:506,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:70,x:94,y:675,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Whatever it may be, he will behave",p:70,x:94,y:727,w:385,h:26},
{t:"appropriately: unharmed, go on his way.",p:70,x:94,y:759,w:446,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:70,x:94,y:810,w:100,h:26},
{t:"But still, to ask of gods means much to pay.",p:70,x:94,y:862,w:481,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:70,x:94,y:914,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps in Argos someone of your kin",p:70,x:94,y:965,w:413,h:26},
{t:"has need to speak for favour he could win.",p:70,x:94,y:997,w:464,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:70,x:94,y:1049,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Enough of that, dear friend.",p:70,x:94,y:1100,w:303,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:70,x:94,y:1152,w:102,h:26},
{t:"But you’ll agree?",p:70,x:94,y:1204,w:182,h:26},
{t:"67",p:71,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:71,x:89,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I won’t.",p:71,x:89,y:135,w:83,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:71,x:89,y:187,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1170. Why such fierce hostility?",p:71,x:89,y:239,w:347,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:71,x:89,y:290,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Your words have told me who the seeker is.",p:71,x:89,y:342,w:478,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:71,x:89,y:394,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Enough for blind refusal such as this?",p:71,x:89,y:445,w:408,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:71,x:89,y:497,w:100,h:26},
{t:"King, it is my son, my hateful son,",p:71,x:89,y:549,w:375,h:26},
{t:"and speech with him is what I most would shun.",p:71,x:89,y:580,w:526,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:71,x:89,y:632,w:102,h:26},
{t:"But why not listen to him? What’s to fear?",p:71,x:89,y:684,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Deny his suit if needed, but still hear.",p:71,x:89,y:715,w:409,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:71,x:89,y:767,w:100,h:26},
{t:"That voice is so abhorrent and amiss",p:71,x:89,y:819,w:400,h:26},
{t:"I ask you, king: do not persist in this.",p:71,x:89,y:850,w:411,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:71,x:89,y:902,w:102,h:26},
{t:"But think what being suppliant must mean",p:71,x:89,y:954,w:462,h:26},
{t:"1180. and anger of that god you may demean.",p:71,x:89,y:985,w:510,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:71,x:89,y:1037,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Heed me, father, young in counsel though",p:71,x:89,y:1089,w:459,h:26},
{t:"I am. Allow the king his chance to show",p:71,x:89,y:1120,w:434,h:26},
{t:"a conscience and respect the god. Agree",p:71,x:89,y:1152,w:440,h:26},
{t:"for my sake that my brother come, but see",p:71,x:89,y:1184,w:470,h:26},
{t:"that nothing in his words can ever shake",p:71,x:89,y:1215,w:442,h:26},
{t:"your resolution or indeed can make",p:71,x:89,y:1247,w:386,h:26},
{t:"68",p:72,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"a good pretence for what is plainly ill.",p:72,x:94,y:84,w:409,h:26},
{t:"But hear him all the same: what harm can still",p:72,x:94,y:115,w:508,h:26},
{t:"befall in this? Let villainy betray",p:72,x:94,y:147,w:346,h:26},
{t:"1190. itself. You are his father, must not pay",p:72,x:94,y:179,w:491,h:26},
{t:"in kind a son’s ingrained injustices.",p:72,x:94,y:210,w:382,h:26},
{t:"Listen to him. Other men have this,",p:72,x:94,y:242,w:388,h:26},
{t:"their thankless children and their griefs as well,",p:72,x:94,y:274,w:516,h:26},
{t:"but yield at length to friends’ persuasion’s spell",p:72,x:94,y:305,w:514,h:26},
{t:"and let their savage mood be exorcised.",p:72,x:94,y:337,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Recall, forget the present, be advised",p:72,x:94,y:369,w:408,h:26},
{t:"by anguish father and your mother brought,",p:72,x:94,y:400,w:481,h:26},
{t:"and in its stern morality be taught",p:72,x:94,y:432,w:372,h:26},
{t:"that evil passion leads to evil ends.",p:72,x:94,y:464,w:382,h:26},
{t:"1200. Not so trivial what reflection sends",p:72,x:94,y:495,w:446,h:26},
{t:"to one bereft of sight. I ask you yield",p:72,x:94,y:527,w:404,h:26},
{t:"to us, supposing that the suppliant not field",p:72,x:94,y:559,w:475,h:26},
{t:"too long his reasons. Surely kindness bidden",p:72,x:94,y:590,w:486,h:26},
{t:"will bless the man to whom it first was given.",p:72,x:94,y:622,w:493,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:72,x:94,y:674,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What can I say, my child? You win assent:",p:72,x:94,y:725,w:462,h:26},
{t:"against my peace of mind I must relent.",p:72,x:94,y:757,w:438,h:26},
{t:"But if he come, I beg of you, my friend,",p:72,x:94,y:789,w:433,h:26},
{t:"defend me from the power his words may send.",p:72,x:94,y:820,w:522,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:72,x:94,y:872,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Not more than once these words should be endured.",p:72,x:94,y:924,w:572,h:26},
{t:"1210. I will not boast of powers, but be assured",p:72,x:94,y:955,w:523,h:26},
{t:"your life is safe while any god saves mine.",p:72,x:94,y:987,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Exit Theseus stage left with soldiers.",p:72,x:94,y:1039,w:397,h:26},
{t:"Stasimon (stationary choral dialogue)",p:72,x:94,y:1090,w:409,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:72,x:94,y:1142,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:72,x:94,y:1194,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Of all the follies known to man",p:72,x:94,y:1245,w:333,h:26},
{t:"69",p:73,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"the worse is seek some longer span:",p:73,x:89,y:84,w:399,h:26},
{t:"wrathfully I give him voice",p:73,x:89,y:115,w:289,h:26},
{t:"as lacking in his rightful sense.",p:73,x:89,y:147,w:336,h:26},
{t:"Beyond the modicum there come",p:73,x:89,y:179,w:361,h:26},
{t:"but sufferings, and added choice",p:73,x:89,y:210,w:354,h:26},
{t:"that heaps on wearily the sum",p:73,x:89,y:242,w:330,h:26},
{t:"of absence as all joys go hence.",p:73,x:89,y:274,w:346,h:26},
{t:"1220. There is no wedding dance in death,",p:73,x:89,y:305,w:465,h:26},
{t:"no warmth or frolic at the gate:",p:73,x:89,y:337,w:344,h:26},
{t:"the same Deliverer will wait",p:73,x:89,y:369,w:302,h:26},
{t:"on Hades and its empty breath.",p:73,x:89,y:400,w:344,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:73,x:89,y:452,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Never to have known the earth",p:73,x:89,y:504,w:337,h:26},
{t:"is the best befalling man",p:73,x:89,y:535,w:268,h:26},
{t:"but if he once is given birth",p:73,x:89,y:567,w:298,h:26},
{t:"he best go back as fast he can.",p:73,x:89,y:599,w:338,h:26},
{t:"Folly is the name of youth,",p:73,x:89,y:630,w:291,h:26},
{t:"nothing lasting or in truth.",p:73,x:89,y:662,w:287,h:26},
{t:"1230. Is it strange that these are lost",p:73,x:89,y:694,w:407,h:26},
{t:"but still exact their fearful cost",p:73,x:89,y:725,w:333,h:26},
{t:"in faction, envy, war and strife,",p:73,x:89,y:757,w:341,h:26},
{t:"and curses to the end of life?",p:73,x:89,y:789,w:316,h:26},
{t:"And so comes age that marks him out",p:73,x:89,y:820,w:415,h:26},
{t:"as most afflicted and no doubt",p:73,x:89,y:852,w:331,h:26},
{t:"infirm, dispraised, without a friend,",p:73,x:89,y:884,w:384,h:26},
{t:"companionless to meet the end",p:73,x:89,y:915,w:342,h:26},
{t:"in sore afflictions age must send.",p:73,x:89,y:947,w:360,h:26},
{t:"Epode (sung after)",p:73,x:89,y:999,w:204,h:26},
{t:"All too clearly of that case is he,",p:73,x:89,y:1050,w:349,h:26},
{t:"1240. but stands not in that state alone,",p:73,x:89,y:1082,w:440,h:26},
{t:"for I am like him in this dread",p:73,x:89,y:1114,w:325,h:26},
{t:"of tempest by the winter sea",p:73,x:89,y:1145,w:313,h:26},
{t:"that lashes headlands facing north",p:73,x:89,y:1177,w:374,h:26},
{t:"from every side to pound the stone",p:73,x:89,y:1209,w:384,h:26},
{t:"and lash such troubles on our head:",p:73,x:89,y:1240,w:392,h:26},
{t:"70",p:74,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"from where the sun at sunset stands,",p:74,x:94,y:84,w:406,h:26},
{t:"from where the sun is setting forth,",p:74,x:94,y:115,w:387,h:26},
{t:"and from the gloomy, northern lands.",p:74,x:94,y:147,w:411,h:26},
{t:"End of Stasimon",p:74,x:94,y:199,w:177,h:26},
{t:"71",p:75,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PART FIVE",p:75,x:89,y:114,w:126,h:31},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:75,x:89,y:195,w:116,h:26},
{t:"I see the stranger coming to us, on",p:75,x:89,y:247,w:384,h:26},
{t:"1250. his own now, father, all attendants gone:",p:75,x:89,y:279,w:520,h:26},
{t:"a suppliant he seems, with tears confessed.",p:75,x:89,y:310,w:475,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:75,x:89,y:362,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Who is it then?",p:75,x:89,y:414,w:163,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:75,x:89,y:465,w:116,h:26},
{t:"The man that you have guessed:",p:75,x:89,y:517,w:359,h:26},
{t:"it’s Polyneices who has come to you.",p:75,x:89,y:549,w:400,h:26},
{t:"Enter Polyneices stage right.",p:75,x:89,y:600,w:310,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:75,x:89,y:652,w:138,h:26},
{t:"What’s best, my sisters, tell me: what’s to do.",p:75,x:89,y:704,w:502,h:26},
{t:"To weep for hardships, or my father here?",p:75,x:89,y:735,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Or you, in great distress, as all to clear",p:75,x:89,y:767,w:425,h:26},
{t:"I see you wandering, in exile too,",p:75,x:89,y:799,w:364,h:26},
{t:"as is my father helpless with the two",p:75,x:89,y:830,w:399,h:26},
{t:"of you. A beggar clad in rags, stained and torn,",p:75,x:89,y:862,w:515,h:26},
{t:"1260. as only covering and these so worn",p:75,x:89,y:894,w:454,h:26},
{t:"there is a whiff about them of a body smell",p:75,x:89,y:925,w:468,h:26},
{t:"that sits with age’s dignity not well.",p:75,x:89,y:957,w:387,h:26},
{t:"About his orbless eyes the hair’s unkempt",p:75,x:89,y:989,w:456,h:26},
{t:"and by no wanton breeze is left exempt.",p:75,x:89,y:1020,w:439,h:26},
{t:"How pitiful are those poor scraps of food",p:75,x:89,y:1052,w:441,h:26},
{t:"he has to ward off hunger. These I’ve viewed",p:75,x:89,y:1084,w:492,h:26},
{t:"too late to learn from, must appear the while,",p:75,x:89,y:1115,w:499,h:26},
{t:"as I’m too conscious of, as one most vile",p:75,x:89,y:1147,w:444,h:26},
{t:"in care of you and son’s attendances.",p:75,x:89,y:1179,w:406,h:26},
{t:"1270. But as almighty Zeus in all he does",p:75,x:89,y:1210,w:452,h:26},
{t:"has Mercy for the sharer of his throne,",p:75,x:89,y:1242,w:420,h:26},
{t:"72",p:76,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"now let this mercy on your side be shown.",p:76,x:94,y:84,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Great faults may heal in time, and, if adverse",p:76,x:94,y:115,w:495,h:26},
{t:"the opportunity, it can’t be worse.",p:76,x:94,y:147,w:371,h:26},
{t:"My father, do not turn away in scorn",p:76,x:94,y:179,w:397,h:26},
{t:"but tell me frankly how that hate was born.",p:76,x:94,y:210,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Will not his daughters, you, my sisters, try",p:76,x:94,y:242,w:465,h:26},
{t:"to plumb this obstinacy and tell me why?",p:76,x:94,y:274,w:447,h:26},
{t:"A god has been invoked. I should be heard.",p:76,x:94,y:305,w:475,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:76,x:94,y:357,w:116,h:26},
{t:"1280. Tell him yourself, unhappy one. A word",p:76,x:94,y:409,w:498,h:26},
{t:"may kindle in him sparks of joy, or stir",p:76,x:94,y:440,w:422,h:26},
{t:"some rage or tenderness, and maybe spur",p:76,x:94,y:472,w:462,h:26},
{t:"a voice from out of silence, which you seek.",p:76,x:94,y:504,w:477,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:76,x:94,y:555,w:138,h:26},
{t:"You counsel wisely, and so I’ll speak.",p:76,x:94,y:607,w:404,h:26},
{t:"First I asked Poseidon’s help be mine,",p:76,x:94,y:639,w:412,h:26},
{t:"and then your ruler raised me from his shrine,",p:76,x:94,y:670,w:504,h:26},
{t:"consenting to that counsel I had craved",p:76,x:94,y:702,w:430,h:26},
{t:"if afterwards I’d go away unscathed.",p:76,x:94,y:734,w:396,h:26},
{t:"If these are favours that they both accept,",p:76,x:94,y:765,w:462,h:26},
{t:"1290. will not my family allow them kept?",p:76,x:94,y:797,w:457,h:26},
{t:"So, father, I will tell you why I’m here.",p:76,x:94,y:829,w:423,h:26},
{t:"From homeland I’ve been banished, and appear,",p:76,x:94,y:860,w:529,h:26},
{t:"like you, an exile though the eldest-born",p:76,x:94,y:892,w:442,h:26},
{t:"who should by rights the throne of Thebes adorn.",p:76,x:94,y:924,w:538,h:26},
{t:"But Eteocles contrived to thrust me out",p:76,x:94,y:955,w:428,h:26},
{t:"and not by any precedent of doubt",p:76,x:94,y:987,w:377,h:26},
{t:"or trial of warfare, even, single fight",p:76,x:94,y:1019,w:393,h:26},
{t:"that would oppugn my clear and sovereign right",p:76,x:94,y:1050,w:523,h:26},
{t:"but by the people, whom he stirred to blame",p:76,x:94,y:1082,w:487,h:26},
{t:"1300. in me the offspring of our cursed name,",p:76,x:94,y:1114,w:503,h:26},
{t:"and then I learned the prophecies held sway.",p:76,x:94,y:1145,w:492,h:26},
{t:"So, dispossessed, I came by Argos way,",p:76,x:94,y:1177,w:438,h:26},
{t:"which is the Dorian land, and took for wife",p:76,x:94,y:1209,w:462,h:26},
{t:"the daughter of Adrastus, bound for life",p:76,x:94,y:1240,w:431,h:26},
{t:"73",p:77,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"as well the warriors of Apian lands,",p:77,x:89,y:84,w:382,h:26},
{t:"the there most valiant of many stands",p:77,x:89,y:115,w:416,h:26},
{t:"to fight for me , and make a sevenfold force",p:77,x:89,y:147,w:481,h:26},
{t:"to contest Thebes and, bravely, in that course,",p:77,x:89,y:179,w:508,h:26},
{t:"to die for me or cast offenders out.",p:77,x:89,y:210,w:382,h:26},
{t:"1310. So am I here, to make that come about",p:77,x:89,y:242,w:502,h:26},
{t:"by asking prayers of you as of my own",p:77,x:89,y:274,w:422,h:26},
{t:"and still more help from allies, strongly shown",p:77,x:89,y:305,w:504,h:26},
{t:"in seven great hosts of seven spears now set",p:77,x:89,y:337,w:491,h:26},
{t:"to march upon the plain of Thebes. There yet",p:77,x:89,y:369,w:493,h:26},
{t:"is Amphiaraus with his lightning spear,",p:77,x:89,y:400,w:422,h:26},
{t:"a famous augur and without a peer,",p:77,x:89,y:432,w:391,h:26},
{t:"and next the Aetolian Tydeus,",p:77,x:89,y:464,w:326,h:26},
{t:"the son of Oeneus, Eteoclus",p:77,x:89,y:495,w:303,h:26},
{t:"who is of Argive birth makes up the third.",p:77,x:89,y:527,w:455,h:26},
{t:"1320. The fourth’s Hippomedon on the word",p:77,x:89,y:559,w:482,h:26},
{t:"of Talaos, his father, and the fifth,",p:77,x:89,y:590,w:373,h:26},
{t:"Capaneus, who boasts he will forthwith",p:77,x:89,y:622,w:426,h:26},
{t:"with fire destroy the city and will burn",p:77,x:89,y:654,w:414,h:26},
{t:"it to the ground. The sixth will also earn",p:77,x:89,y:685,w:435,h:26},
{t:"his place: he’s Parthenopaeus, born",p:77,x:89,y:717,w:389,h:26},
{t:"of Arcady who to the war in scorn",p:77,x:89,y:749,w:366,h:26},
{t:"of danger rushes, and of that woman named",p:77,x:89,y:780,w:486,h:26},
{t:"so long unmarried but now wed, the famed,",p:77,x:89,y:812,w:478,h:26},
{t:"true son of Atalanta. Last, your son",p:77,x:89,y:844,w:385,h:26},
{t:"1330. that offspring of a line that mortals shun,",p:77,x:89,y:875,w:520,h:26},
{t:"but still your family: I lead the host",p:77,x:89,y:907,w:387,h:26},
{t:"that wars on Thebes and so goes hithermost",p:77,x:89,y:939,w:484,h:26},
{t:"to meet the destiny of his life’s path.",p:77,x:89,y:970,w:400,h:26},
{t:"I beg you to restrain that sternest wrath",p:77,x:89,y:1002,w:439,h:26},
{t:"you hold against me, being pledged to fight",p:77,x:89,y:1034,w:475,h:26},
{t:"the one who’s wronged me and to claim my right.",p:77,x:89,y:1065,w:543,h:26},
{t:"For victory, if oracles speak true,",p:77,x:89,y:1097,w:360,h:26},
{t:"will come to him who is allied to you.",p:77,x:89,y:1129,w:404,h:26},
{t:"So by our springs and native gods I ask,",p:77,x:89,y:1160,w:441,h:26},
{t:"1340. as exiles both of us, to share this task",p:77,x:89,y:1192,w:484,h:26},
{t:"ejecting him who sits upon my throne",p:77,x:89,y:1224,w:412,h:26},
{t:"and from the mockery that’s also grown.",p:77,x:89,y:1255,w:443,h:26},
{t:"74",p:78,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"With you I’ll scatter him and from disgrace",p:78,x:94,y:84,w:465,h:26},
{t:"both you and I receive our rightful place.",p:78,x:94,y:115,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Without you only death can come to us.",p:78,x:94,y:147,w:434,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:78,x:94,y:199,w:93,h:26},
{t:"For the sake of he who sent him, Oedipus,",p:78,x:94,y:250,w:462,h:26},
{t:"do not now send him off without reply.",p:78,x:94,y:282,w:422,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:78,x:94,y:334,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My friends, I said for Theseus I’d try",p:78,x:94,y:385,w:396,h:26},
{t:"to hear him, since he sent him on to me",p:78,x:94,y:417,w:437,h:26},
{t:"1350. and otherwise in truth I’d not agree:",p:78,x:94,y:449,w:468,h:26},
{t:"but so it is, this final parting grace,",p:78,x:94,y:480,w:382,h:26},
{t:"in which true happiness finds little trace.",p:78,x:94,y:512,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Wretch, now listen. When you held the throne",p:78,x:94,y:544,w:500,h:26},
{t:"which now your brother’s keeping as his own,",p:78,x:94,y:575,w:498,h:26},
{t:"you drove your own poor father out, and made",p:78,x:94,y:607,w:512,h:26},
{t:"an exile of him, cityless, arrayed",p:78,x:94,y:639,w:355,h:26},
{t:"in clothes that now seem sorry in your sight",p:78,x:94,y:670,w:479,h:26},
{t:"and state that you have come to. In this plight",p:78,x:94,y:702,w:507,h:26},
{t:"there’s nothing left for tears: it must be borne",p:78,x:94,y:734,w:503,h:26},
{t:"1360. by me perpetually, but still in scorn,",p:78,x:94,y:765,w:464,h:26},
{t:"I count you murderer. You threw me out,",p:78,x:94,y:797,w:450,h:26},
{t:"ensured by this that I should go without",p:78,x:94,y:829,w:436,h:26},
{t:"and beg for bread from strangers. Indeed had not",p:78,x:94,y:860,w:544,h:26},
{t:"my daughters tended me, and cared and got",p:78,x:94,y:892,w:487,h:26},
{t:"me sustenance, I should be dead for aught",p:78,x:94,y:924,w:468,h:26},
{t:"of help from you. Like men these two have wrought",p:78,x:94,y:955,w:565,h:26},
{t:"true service to their father: you have not.",p:78,x:94,y:987,w:455,h:26},
{t:"I see no kinsman’s tenderness, but what",p:78,x:94,y:1019,w:442,h:26},
{t:"now makes you none of mine. As Heaven’s eye",p:78,x:94,y:1050,w:514,h:26},
{t:"1370. does not look fondly on you, by and by",p:78,x:94,y:1082,w:495,h:26},
{t:"it will be worse if, with that threatened force,",p:78,x:94,y:1114,w:491,h:26},
{t:"you fall on Thebes. The future won’t endorse",p:78,x:94,y:1145,w:487,h:26},
{t:"attempts to overthrow the city: you",p:78,x:94,y:1177,w:389,h:26},
{t:"will die in conflict and your brother too.",p:78,x:94,y:1209,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Such are the curses that my soul has sent",p:78,x:94,y:1240,w:458,h:26},
{t:"75",p:79,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"against the both of you, and that event",p:79,x:89,y:84,w:427,h:26},
{t:"I now require to fight and side with me",p:79,x:89,y:115,w:425,h:26},
{t:"that hence you do not treat so thanklessly,",p:79,x:89,y:147,w:467,h:26},
{t:"your old blind father that begat this crime,",p:79,x:89,y:179,w:464,h:26},
{t:"1380. but, like your sisters more, respect his time.",p:79,x:89,y:210,w:553,h:26},
{t:"My curse has influence on your throne, in fact",p:79,x:89,y:242,w:499,h:26},
{t:"on supplication also if the law will act",p:79,x:89,y:274,w:405,h:26},
{t:"of old, as Zeus portrays it, and with might.",p:79,x:89,y:305,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Abhorred, no son of mine, be gone from sight,",p:79,x:89,y:337,w:507,h:26},
{t:"the vilest of the vile, or hear the rest.",p:79,x:89,y:369,w:409,h:26},
{t:"This curse I leave you as my last behest:",p:79,x:89,y:400,w:448,h:26},
{t:"never to win by arms your native land,",p:79,x:89,y:432,w:423,h:26},
{t:"and never again in hill-girt Argos stand,",p:79,x:89,y:464,w:433,h:26},
{t:"but by a kinsman’s arm to die, and kill",p:79,x:89,y:495,w:419,h:26},
{t:"1390. the one who’s ousted you. For this I will",p:79,x:89,y:527,w:505,h:26},
{t:"now call on gloom of Tartarus to take",p:79,x:89,y:559,w:407,h:26},
{t:"you hence, and on the spirits here to slake",p:79,x:89,y:590,w:465,h:26},
{t:"no fury in that enmity. You’ve heard.",p:79,x:89,y:622,w:402,h:26},
{t:"Go out and give the Cadmeians my word:",p:79,x:89,y:654,w:454,h:26},
{t:"this, as his divided heritage,",p:79,x:89,y:685,w:307,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus to both his sons will pledge.",p:79,x:89,y:717,w:399,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:79,x:89,y:769,w:93,h:26},
{t:"We never liked it, Polyneices: heed",p:79,x:89,y:820,w:382,h:26},
{t:"that warning therefore and return with speed.",p:79,x:89,y:852,w:499,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:79,x:89,y:904,w:138,h:26},
{t:"What can this journey and my hopes now lend",p:79,x:89,y:955,w:505,h:26},
{t:"1400. to my poor comrades, but a dismal end",p:79,x:89,y:987,w:500,h:26},
{t:"to that proud march from Argos? Not to tell",p:79,x:89,y:1019,w:474,h:26},
{t:"my loyal comrades even, nor compel",p:79,x:89,y:1050,w:401,h:26},
{t:"return but go on till this war has end.",p:79,x:89,y:1082,w:408,h:26},
{t:"But you, his daughters, sisters, you can mend",p:79,x:89,y:1114,w:501,h:26},
{t:"the ruthless prayer of our father. If",p:79,x:89,y:1145,w:383,h:26},
{t:"indeed such curses come to pass, and with",p:79,x:89,y:1177,w:466,h:26},
{t:"the passage of the years some way is found",p:79,x:89,y:1209,w:478,h:26},
{t:"for your return to Thebes, do not compound",p:79,x:89,y:1240,w:480,h:26},
{t:"76",p:80,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"my sufferings but give me burial rites",p:80,x:94,y:84,w:409,h:26},
{t:"1410. as that which should be mine. For in those rights",p:80,x:94,y:115,w:602,h:26},
{t:"your duty finds itself and will bring praise",p:80,x:94,y:147,w:451,h:26},
{t:"additional to father’s, and in ways",p:80,x:94,y:179,w:370,h:26},
{t:"of peace to me those offices can bring.",p:80,x:94,y:210,w:423,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:80,x:94,y:262,w:116,h:26},
{t:"I’d ask you, Polyneices, one more thing.",p:80,x:94,y:314,w:438,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:80,x:94,y:365,w:138,h:26},
{t:"From you, Antigone, I’d hear the most.",p:80,x:94,y:417,w:427,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:80,x:94,y:469,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Turn back from Thebes with all your host",p:80,x:94,y:520,w:447,h:26},
{t:"and ruin not yourself and Thebes as well.",p:80,x:94,y:552,w:449,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:80,x:94,y:604,w:138,h:26},
{t:"That I cannot do. How could I quell",p:80,x:94,y:655,w:383,h:26},
{t:"that force and raise another as their chief?",p:80,x:94,y:687,w:464,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:80,x:94,y:739,w:116,h:26},
{t:"1420. This anger, brother, reeks of misbelief",p:80,x:94,y:790,w:486,h:26},
{t:"in power. Repent and do not sack our land.",p:80,x:94,y:822,w:471,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:80,x:94,y:874,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Shameful is an exile, and I stand",p:80,x:94,y:925,w:359,h:26},
{t:"the more belittled by my younger’s taunts.",p:80,x:94,y:957,w:467,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:80,x:94,y:1009,w:116,h:26},
{t:"But think how strongly now that future haunts,",p:80,x:94,y:1060,w:511,h:26},
{t:"with both your deaths upon that bloodied field.",p:80,x:94,y:1092,w:511,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:80,x:94,y:1144,w:138,h:26},
{t:"So my father wishes. I may not yield.",p:80,x:94,y:1195,w:410,h:26},
{t:"77",p:81,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:81,x:89,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Advised of prophecy, what will they do",p:81,x:89,y:135,w:421,h:26},
{t:"but be reluctant hence to follow you?",p:81,x:89,y:167,w:404,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:81,x:89,y:219,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Reverses the wise general will not repeat:",p:81,x:89,y:270,w:457,h:26},
{t:"1430. he talks of winning only, not defeat.",p:81,x:89,y:302,w:463,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:81,x:89,y:354,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Truly, brother, is your course now set?",p:81,x:89,y:405,w:422,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:81,x:89,y:457,w:138,h:26},
{t:"It is, inflexible and will beget",p:81,x:89,y:509,w:314,h:26},
{t:"no doubt the curse of which my father spoke",p:81,x:89,y:540,w:488,h:26},
{t:"where prophecies and Furies add their yoke.",p:81,x:89,y:572,w:483,h:26},
{t:"May Zeus, my sisters, make your pathway bright",p:81,x:89,y:604,w:534,h:26},
{t:"if you will serve when I’m beyond the light.",p:81,x:89,y:635,w:472,h:26},
{t:"And so I leave you now. A long farewell:",p:81,x:89,y:667,w:441,h:26},
{t:"we’ll never meet again unless in Hell.",p:81,x:89,y:699,w:406,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:81,x:89,y:750,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Ah gods.",p:81,x:89,y:802,w:95,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:81,x:89,y:854,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Bewail me not.",p:81,x:89,y:905,w:162,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:81,x:89,y:957,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Who would not mourn,",p:81,x:89,y:1009,w:248,h:26},
{t:"1440. you, brother, hurrying to death’s empty bourn.",p:81,x:89,y:1040,w:582,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:81,x:89,y:1092,w:138,h:26},
{t:"If I must die, I must.",p:81,x:89,y:1144,w:230,h:26},
{t:"78",p:82,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:82,x:94,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"But there are words I had.",p:82,x:94,y:135,w:288,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:82,x:94,y:187,w:138,h:26},
{t:"And they will keep.",p:82,x:94,y:239,w:207,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:82,x:94,y:290,w:116,h:26},
{t:"How desperately sad",p:82,x:94,y:342,w:226,h:26},
{t:"I’ll be to lose you, brother.",p:82,x:94,y:374,w:292,h:26},
{t:"POLYNEICES",p:82,x:94,y:425,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Such is fate",p:82,x:94,y:477,w:127,h:26},
{t:"whatever end I have, for you of late",p:82,x:94,y:509,w:393,h:26},
{t:"I pray the gods will keep you from all ill,",p:82,x:94,y:540,w:440,h:26},
{t:"who were so blameless ever, and are still.",p:82,x:94,y:572,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Exit Polyneices stage right.",p:82,x:94,y:624,w:293,h:26},
{t:"Kommos (choral dialogue)",p:82,x:94,y:675,w:287,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:82,x:94,y:727,w:93,h:26},
{t:"New ills have come, there is no rest",p:82,x:94,y:779,w:390,h:26},
{t:"for this our sightless, wandering guest",p:82,x:94,y:810,w:417,h:26},
{t:"unless it’s fate that finds its way.",p:82,x:94,y:842,w:359,h:26},
{t:"1450. But be it never mine to say",p:82,x:94,y:874,w:366,h:26},
{t:"that powers of heaven are in vain",p:82,x:94,y:905,w:365,h:26},
{t:"in what they do or will ordain.",p:82,x:94,y:937,w:326,h:26},
{t:"Time watches with a sleepless eye",p:82,x:94,y:969,w:374,h:26},
{t:"to ruin or raise us, by and by.",p:82,x:94,y:1000,w:325,h:26},
{t:"Hear the thunder in the sky:",p:82,x:94,y:1032,w:310,h:26},
{t:"may Zeus protect us, we must cry.",p:82,x:94,y:1064,w:380,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos",p:82,x:94,y:1115,w:171,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:82,x:94,y:1167,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Children, find a messenger to send",p:82,x:94,y:1219,w:381,h:26},
{t:"79",p:83,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"to Theseus who is my peerless friend.",p:83,x:89,y:84,w:411,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:83,x:89,y:135,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Again though, father, you would bring him here?",p:83,x:89,y:187,w:531,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:83,x:89,y:239,w:100,h:26},
{t:"1460. Zeus’s winged thunder’s coming near",p:83,x:89,y:290,w:476,h:26},
{t:"to carry me to Hades. Don’t delay.",p:83,x:89,y:322,w:376,h:26},
{t:"Kommos (choral dialogue)",p:83,x:89,y:374,w:287,h:26},
{t:"Thunder",p:83,x:89,y:425,w:89,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:83,x:89,y:477,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Now again and louder calls",p:83,x:89,y:529,w:291,h:26},
{t:"the thunder, deafening, that falls.",p:83,x:89,y:560,w:367,h:26},
{t:"Hurled implacably by Zeus,",p:83,x:89,y:592,w:297,h:26},
{t:"that makes the hair stand on the head.",p:83,x:89,y:624,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Dark and terrified is earth,",p:83,x:89,y:655,w:289,h:26},
{t:"lit by lightning in the sky",p:83,x:89,y:687,w:270,h:26},
{t:"as though some issue had its birth.",p:83,x:89,y:719,w:383,h:26},
{t:"And not in vain, for none deny",p:83,x:89,y:750,w:331,h:26},
{t:"1470. a fearful signal has been said:",p:83,x:89,y:782,w:398,h:26},
{t:"such the dreaded sky of Zeus.",p:83,x:89,y:814,w:329,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos",p:83,x:89,y:865,w:171,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:83,x:89,y:917,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Destiny, my daughters. Now I may",p:83,x:89,y:969,w:381,h:26},
{t:"not turn my face against what I must do.",p:83,x:89,y:1000,w:448,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:83,x:89,y:1052,w:116,h:26},
{t:"How do you know? What sign is given you?",p:83,x:89,y:1104,w:470,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:83,x:89,y:1155,w:100,h:26},
{t:"I know full well. Let someone go and bring",p:83,x:89,y:1207,w:464,h:26},
{t:"at once, with all despatch, the Athenian king.",p:83,x:89,y:1239,w:494,h:26},
{t:"80",p:84,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Thunder",p:84,x:94,y:84,w:89,h:26},
{t:"Kommos (choral dialogue)",p:84,x:94,y:135,w:287,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:84,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Once again we hear the sound,",p:84,x:94,y:239,w:339,h:26},
{t:"a voice that thunders all around,",p:84,x:94,y:270,w:354,h:26},
{t:"May God be merciful and bring",p:84,x:94,y:302,w:335,h:26},
{t:"1480. no gloom upon us for this thing",p:84,x:94,y:334,w:413,h:26},
{t:"that spreads its darkness from the mind.",p:84,x:94,y:365,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Grace not anger I would win",p:84,x:94,y:397,w:308,h:26},
{t:"who looked upon this man of sin,",p:84,x:94,y:429,w:361,h:26},
{t:"but looked the more with pitying eye:",p:84,x:94,y:460,w:411,h:26},
{t:"this to our great Zeus I cry.",p:84,x:94,y:492,w:302,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos",p:84,x:94,y:544,w:171,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:84,x:94,y:595,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Has the man now come, and will he find",p:84,x:94,y:647,w:437,h:26},
{t:"me cognisant, with all my faculties?",p:84,x:94,y:679,w:389,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:84,x:94,y:730,w:116,h:26},
{t:"What is the undertaking then in these?",p:84,x:94,y:782,w:423,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:84,x:94,y:834,w:100,h:26},
{t:"It is that recompense that I conceived",p:84,x:94,y:885,w:414,h:26},
{t:"1490 when those kind benefits I first received.",p:84,x:94,y:917,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Kommos (choral dialogue)",p:84,x:94,y:969,w:287,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:84,x:94,y:1020,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Come here my son: it will suffice",p:84,x:94,y:1072,w:358,h:26},
{t:"from inmost glade the sacrifice",p:84,x:94,y:1104,w:337,h:26},
{t:"you leave at once, and so resign",p:84,x:94,y:1135,w:353,h:26},
{t:"attendance on Poseidon’s shrine:",p:84,x:94,y:1167,w:360,h:26},
{t:"Worthy as the stranger spoke,",p:84,x:94,y:1199,w:330,h:26},
{t:"for both the city and its folk.",p:84,x:94,y:1230,w:311,h:26},
{t:"Attend the stranger; he will bring",p:84,x:94,y:1262,w:363,h:26},
{t:"81",p:85,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"for gifts received an offering.",p:85,x:89,y:84,w:316,h:26},
{t:"Haste, and come now quickly, king.",p:85,x:89,y:115,w:388,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos",p:85,x:89,y:167,w:171,h:26},
{t:"Thunder ends",p:85,x:89,y:219,w:148,h:26},
{t:"Theseus enters stage left.",p:85,x:89,y:270,w:280,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:85,x:89,y:322,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1500. Why is it I have now been brought again",p:85,x:89,y:374,w:512,h:26},
{t:"by all the people and our guest? Is it",p:85,x:89,y:405,w:401,h:26},
{t:"the heavy thunderbolt from Zeus would fit",p:85,x:89,y:437,w:460,h:26},
{t:"the purposes or this hard hail? A storm",p:85,x:89,y:469,w:425,h:26},
{t:"brings dark forebodings if it have this form.",p:85,x:89,y:500,w:474,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:85,x:89,y:552,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Welcome, prince. You have a god repay",p:85,x:89,y:604,w:432,h:26},
{t:"with fortune kindness coming on this way.",p:85,x:89,y:635,w:460,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:85,x:89,y:687,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Son of Laïus, how do matters lie?",p:85,x:89,y:739,w:363,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:85,x:89,y:790,w:100,h:26},
{t:"My life hangs in the scale, and I would die",p:85,x:89,y:842,w:458,h:26},
{t:"guiltless of my pledges lingering here.",p:85,x:89,y:874,w:415,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:85,x:89,y:925,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1510. What sign is telling you your end is near?",p:85,x:89,y:977,w:521,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:85,x:89,y:1029,w:100,h:26},
{t:"The gods themselves are heralds of my fate,",p:85,x:89,y:1080,w:485,h:26},
{t:"and always have and will be, soon or late.",p:85,x:89,y:1112,w:457,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:85,x:89,y:1164,w:102,h:26},
{t:"How do they signify their will at last?",p:85,x:89,y:1215,w:402,h:26},
{t:"82",p:86,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:86,x:94,y:84,w:100,h:26},
{t:"This thunder, peal on peal, this lightning cast",p:86,x:94,y:135,w:492,h:26},
{t:"in fury from the vast unconquered hand.",p:86,x:94,y:167,w:442,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:86,x:94,y:219,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Then clearly I must let the omens stand.",p:86,x:94,y:270,w:443,h:26},
{t:"You have been right before. What must I do?",p:86,x:94,y:302,w:491,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:86,x:94,y:354,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Then son of Aegeus, for this State and you",p:86,x:94,y:405,w:465,h:26},
{t:"I bring a treasure that no age can blight",p:86,x:94,y:437,w:436,h:26},
{t:"1520. I will and soon, unaided, in your sight,",p:86,x:94,y:469,w:490,h:26},
{t:"convey you to the spot where life must end.",p:86,x:94,y:500,w:480,h:26},
{t:"That place is not to be revealed – attend",p:86,x:94,y:532,w:441,h:26},
{t:"my words – to any man, the spot or there-",p:86,x:94,y:564,w:468,h:26},
{t:"abouts: so it may serve as sanctuary where",p:86,x:94,y:595,w:476,h:26},
{t:"all shields and spears of friends are vain.",p:86,x:94,y:627,w:446,h:26},
{t:"These mysteries, which words may not profane,",p:86,x:94,y:659,w:522,h:26},
{t:"you’ll gather coming to the place alone.",p:86,x:94,y:690,w:432,h:26},
{t:"In short, these can’t be spoken of or shown",p:86,x:94,y:722,w:474,h:26},
{t:"to others here, my children even, though",p:86,x:94,y:754,w:448,h:26},
{t:"1530. they’re dear to me. You’ll guard the signs and show",p:86,x:94,y:785,w:633,h:26},
{t:"them to your heir when his time comes. So may",p:86,x:94,y:817,w:525,h:26},
{t:"the truth be handed down, and heir gainsay",p:86,x:94,y:849,w:478,h:26},
{t:"the trouble issuing from Dragon’s brood",p:86,x:94,y:880,w:434,h:26},
{t:"and Athens’ safety have this certitude.",p:86,x:94,y:912,w:420,h:26},
{t:"The upright state can be by neighbours wronged",p:86,x:94,y:944,w:528,h:26},
{t:"and even gods, for all the evils thronged",p:86,x:94,y:975,w:441,h:26},
{t:"about, may tarry in their justice, though",p:86,x:94,y:1007,w:439,h:26},
{t:"they make the sinner pay in frenzy’s throe.",p:86,x:94,y:1039,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Theseus: do not let fate incline",p:86,x:94,y:1070,w:337,h:26},
{t:"1540. that way, although you need no words of mine.",p:86,x:94,y:1102,w:586,h:26},
{t:"Now to that place. No, do not hesitate:",p:86,x:94,y:1134,w:424,h:26},
{t:"the god within compels and will not wait.",p:86,x:94,y:1165,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus leads Antigone and Ismene stage left.",p:86,x:94,y:1217,w:508,h:26},
{t:"83",p:87,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Follow me my daughters. Strange that I’d,",p:87,x:89,y:84,w:463,h:26},
{t:"who’d always counted on you, be your guide.",p:87,x:89,y:115,w:493,h:26},
{t:"No, do not touch me, but let me on my own",p:87,x:89,y:147,w:479,h:26},
{t:"search out the sepulchre that I alone",p:87,x:89,y:179,w:403,h:26},
{t:"am destined for. Here, this is the way,",p:87,x:89,y:210,w:419,h:26},
{t:"for guiding Hermes leads me, and the sway",p:87,x:89,y:242,w:475,h:26},
{t:"of kind Persephone who rules the dead.",p:87,x:89,y:274,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus steps confidently to the left, beckoning the others.",p:87,x:89,y:325,w:645,h:26},
{t:"1550. The light’s no light to me, but it has shed",p:87,x:89,y:377,w:519,h:26},
{t:"for a last time grace on me. I draw",p:87,x:89,y:409,w:381,h:26},
{t:"now near to Hades’ far and gloomy shore.",p:87,x:89,y:440,w:457,h:26},
{t:"To Theseus.",p:87,x:89,y:492,w:130,h:26},
{t:"Truest of friends, be blessed, be blessed by fate",p:87,x:89,y:544,w:523,h:26},
{t:"in land and followers: in this fond state",p:87,x:89,y:575,w:426,h:26},
{t:"reflect on one who helps though closed his eyes.",p:87,x:89,y:607,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Exit Oedipus, daughters, Theseus and soldiers stage left.",p:87,x:89,y:659,w:620,h:26},
{t:"Stasimon (stationary choral dialogue)",p:87,x:89,y:710,w:409,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:87,x:89,y:762,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:87,x:89,y:814,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Let me with my prayers adore",p:87,x:89,y:865,w:328,h:26},
{t:"the Unseen Goddess and implore",p:87,x:89,y:897,w:359,h:26},
{t:"the lord of children of the night:",p:87,x:89,y:929,w:350,h:26},
{t:"Aïdoneus, Aïdoneus,",p:87,x:89,y:960,w:221,h:26},
{t:"1560. hear me, you, though out of sight.",p:87,x:89,y:992,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Not with sad and fearful doom",p:87,x:89,y:1024,w:330,h:26},
{t:"speed this traveller to the gloom,",p:87,x:89,y:1055,w:362,h:26},
{t:"let him enter without stain",p:87,x:89,y:1087,w:288,h:26},
{t:"the all-enshrouding Stygian plain.",p:87,x:89,y:1119,w:368,h:26},
{t:"Unsought evils came to pass,",p:87,x:89,y:1150,w:319,h:26},
{t:"but lift him up who was oppressed",p:87,x:89,y:1182,w:374,h:26},
{t:"and let his soul with justice rest.",p:87,x:89,y:1214,w:354,h:26},
{t:"84",p:88,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:88,x:94,y:84,w:525,h:26},
{t:"May fearsome goddesses, that hound,",p:88,x:94,y:135,w:415,h:26},
{t:"which in ferocious shape is bound",p:88,x:94,y:167,w:366,h:26},
{t:"1570. to keep the gate, unconquerable,",p:88,x:94,y:199,w:431,h:26},
{t:"that watcher at the gates of Hell,",p:88,x:94,y:230,w:359,h:26},
{t:"still snarling from the cavern’s jaws",p:88,x:94,y:262,w:387,h:26},
{t:"but chained there by perpetual laws,",p:88,x:94,y:294,w:399,h:26},
{t:"and you, dread Death, that hear me well,",p:88,x:94,y:325,w:451,h:26},
{t:"son of Earth and Tartarus:",p:88,x:94,y:357,w:287,h:26},
{t:"restrain your purposes and keep",p:88,x:94,y:389,w:353,h:26},
{t:"across the gloomy shadows of the dead",p:88,x:94,y:420,w:431,h:26},
{t:"a pathway clear for this man’s sleep.",p:88,x:94,y:452,w:400,h:26},
{t:"End of Stasimon",p:88,x:94,y:504,w:177,h:26},
{t:"85",p:89,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PART SI X: E XODO S (C onclusi",p:89,x:89,y:114,w:397,h:31},
{t:"on of Play)",p:89,x:502,y:114,w:138,h:31},
{t:"Enter messenger stage left.",p:89,x:89,y:195,w:300,h:26},
{t:"MESSENGER",p:89,x:89,y:247,w:136,h:26},
{t:"And so, my countrymen, to summarize:",p:89,x:89,y:299,w:434,h:26},
{t:"1580. no more is Oedipus for mortal eyes.",p:89,x:89,y:330,w:462,h:26},
{t:"But not so trivial was the way he went",p:89,x:89,y:362,w:417,h:26},
{t:"that words may answer for that strange event.",p:89,x:89,y:394,w:508,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:89,x:89,y:445,w:93,h:26},
{t:"He’s gone, the unhappy man?",p:89,x:89,y:497,w:325,h:26},
{t:"MESSENGER",p:89,x:89,y:549,w:136,h:26},
{t:"The end of breath",p:89,x:89,y:600,w:194,h:26},
{t:"announces he has passed from life to death.",p:89,x:89,y:632,w:482,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:89,x:89,y:684,w:93,h:26},
{t:"But how? As god-sent, painless, as he sought?",p:89,x:89,y:735,w:508,h:26},
{t:"MESSENGER",p:89,x:89,y:787,w:136,h:26},
{t:"Now you touch on what is worth your thought.",p:89,x:89,y:839,w:506,h:26},
{t:"How he moved you saw, and, known to you,",p:89,x:89,y:870,w:485,h:26},
{t:"he moved without a friend to guide him through,",p:89,x:89,y:902,w:532,h:26},
{t:"but led the way, and at the thoroughfares",p:89,x:89,y:934,w:455,h:26},
{t:"1590. of that deep Threshold with its brazen stairs",p:89,x:89,y:965,w:549,h:26},
{t:"he paused at one of the converging ways",p:89,x:89,y:997,w:447,h:26},
{t:"hard by the rocky basin which portrays",p:89,x:89,y:1029,w:425,h:26},
{t:"the pact of Theseus with Pirithoüs.",p:89,x:89,y:1060,w:376,h:26},
{t:"Between that basin and Thorician boss,",p:89,x:89,y:1092,w:427,h:26},
{t:"the hollow pear-tree and the marble tomb,",p:89,x:89,y:1124,w:466,h:26},
{t:"he sat, stepped from his beggar’s clothes, assumed",p:89,x:89,y:1155,w:561,h:26},
{t:"another self, and, calling daughters, made",p:89,x:89,y:1187,w:461,h:26},
{t:"them fetch him running water, both to bathe",p:89,x:89,y:1219,w:487,h:26},
{t:"and make libation: so they climbed the hill",p:89,x:89,y:1250,w:465,h:26},
{t:"86",p:90,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"1600. of Demeter, who guards its foliage still,",p:90,x:94,y:84,w:499,h:26},
{t:"and in a short time brought him what he sought",p:90,x:94,y:115,w:523,h:26},
{t:"and washed and dressed him as they ought.",p:90,x:94,y:147,w:482,h:26},
{t:"When everything was done as he had willed",p:90,x:94,y:179,w:477,h:26},
{t:"with no desire of his left unfulfilled,",p:90,x:94,y:210,w:384,h:26},
{t:"there came a thunder from the underworld.",p:90,x:94,y:242,w:474,h:26},
{t:"The women to their father’s knees were hurled",p:90,x:94,y:274,w:509,h:26},
{t:"and wept and beat their breasts, and wailed, but he",p:90,x:94,y:305,w:564,h:26},
{t:"on hearing their distress was wondrously",p:90,x:94,y:337,w:445,h:26},
{t:"protective, warmly hugged them in his arms.",p:90,x:94,y:369,w:491,h:26},
{t:"1610. There is no cause for tears or such alarms,",p:90,x:94,y:400,w:537,h:26},
{t:"he said, but, children you will lose today",p:90,x:94,y:432,w:440,h:26},
{t:"your father, all of him, or all that may",p:90,x:94,y:464,w:413,h:26},
{t:"be still accounted man. That thing is spent",p:90,x:94,y:495,w:463,h:26},
{t:"and you’re no more to be oppressed and bent",p:90,x:94,y:527,w:499,h:26},
{t:"beneath the burden of supporting me.",p:90,x:94,y:559,w:415,h:26},
{t:"A heavy load in truth it was to be",p:90,x:94,y:590,w:362,h:26},
{t:"but one word singly wipes out misery",p:90,x:94,y:622,w:407,h:26},
{t:"and troubles of so long a ministry.",p:90,x:94,y:654,w:374,h:26},
{t:"That word is love, and love you had from me",p:90,x:94,y:685,w:489,h:26},
{t:"1620. as from no other in this world. You’ll be",p:90,x:94,y:717,w:500,h:26},
{t:"henceforth without me all the days you live.",p:90,x:94,y:749,w:479,h:26},
{t:"At that the three then clasped, and wept, and with",p:90,x:94,y:780,w:550,h:26},
{t:"such tears they brought their sadness to its end",p:90,x:94,y:812,w:522,h:26},
{t:"in silence such as only grief can send.",p:90,x:94,y:844,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Then all at once there came a summoning,",p:90,x:94,y:875,w:465,h:26},
{t:"a voice that called to them, a fearful thing",p:90,x:94,y:907,w:458,h:26},
{t:"that made the hair stand rigid on each one’s head.",p:90,x:94,y:939,w:551,h:26},
{t:"They were amazed and looked about with dread",p:90,x:94,y:970,w:523,h:26},
{t:"but still the voice spoke on and variously,",p:90,x:94,y:1002,w:453,h:26},
{t:"1630. now loud, now whispering, repeatedly:",p:90,x:94,y:1034,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus, Oedipus, why do",p:90,x:94,y:1065,w:285,h:26},
{t:"we tarry here so long? We wait for you.",p:90,x:94,y:1097,w:430,h:26},
{t:"And when he knew it was a god he heard",p:90,x:94,y:1129,w:450,h:26},
{t:"he asked that Theseus draw close, conferred.",p:90,x:94,y:1160,w:493,h:26},
{t:"My friend, now promise me with your right hand",p:90,x:94,y:1192,w:527,h:26},
{t:"to daughters, as they promise you, to stand",p:90,x:94,y:1224,w:479,h:26},
{t:"forever guardian of their good, and let",p:90,x:94,y:1255,w:418,h:26},
{t:"87",p:91,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"no inattention ever harm that debt.",p:91,x:89,y:84,w:385,h:26},
{t:"Then noble Theseus, as to a friend,",p:91,x:89,y:115,w:383,h:26},
{t:"1640. without complaint, so promised to that end.",p:91,x:89,y:147,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Whereupon, Oedipus, blind hands stretched",p:91,x:89,y:179,w:477,h:26},
{t:"towards his children, holding them, then fetched",p:91,x:89,y:210,w:528,h:26},
{t:"these final words. Children, be brave of heart",p:91,x:89,y:242,w:494,h:26},
{t:"and leave this place, and never for your part",p:91,x:89,y:274,w:485,h:26},
{t:"seek hence to witness evidence you may",p:91,x:89,y:305,w:443,h:26},
{t:"not see, nor hear the things you may not say.",p:91,x:89,y:337,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Go now and leave but Theseus with me",p:91,x:89,y:369,w:429,h:26},
{t:"to witness rightfully what is to be.",p:91,x:89,y:400,w:370,h:26},
{t:"So we heard him speak, and tearfully",p:91,x:89,y:432,w:407,h:26},
{t:"1650. we followed out his weeping daughters. We,",p:91,x:89,y:464,w:551,h:26},
{t:"on glancing back a short time later, saw",p:91,x:89,y:495,w:437,h:26},
{t:"that empty air was left, and nothing more.",p:91,x:89,y:527,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Only the king we noted, with his hand",p:91,x:89,y:559,w:413,h:26},
{t:"before his eyes as though he would withstand",p:91,x:89,y:590,w:498,h:26},
{t:"a fearful sight that no one looks upon.",p:91,x:89,y:622,w:416,h:26},
{t:"A moment later and a prayer had gone",p:91,x:89,y:654,w:424,h:26},
{t:"to earth and heaven, both at once. What end",p:91,x:89,y:685,w:490,h:26},
{t:"the stranger met, no man may comprehend",p:91,x:89,y:717,w:477,h:26},
{t:"but Theseus alone. No thunderbolt from god",p:91,x:89,y:749,w:482,h:26},
{t:"1660. removed him at that hour. No storm or odd",p:91,x:89,y:780,w:544,h:26},
{t:"disturbance from the sea, but messenger",p:91,x:89,y:812,w:449,h:26},
{t:"of sorts there must have been, that, as it were,",p:91,x:89,y:844,w:518,h:26},
{t:"withdrew him to a hell or heaven above,",p:91,x:89,y:875,w:440,h:26},
{t:"with earth that opened gently and with love.",p:91,x:89,y:907,w:483,h:26},
{t:"If this be marvellous, that you’d dismiss",p:91,x:89,y:939,w:437,h:26},
{t:"as nonsense, I’m content to err in this.",p:91,x:89,y:970,w:425,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:91,x:89,y:1022,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Where are the women and the friends around?",p:91,x:89,y:1074,w:507,h:26},
{t:"MESSENGER",p:91,x:89,y:1125,w:136,h:26},
{t:"They cannot be far off. The approaching sound",p:91,x:89,y:1177,w:508,h:26},
{t:"of lamentation tells they come this way.",p:91,x:89,y:1209,w:436,h:26},
{t:"88",p:92,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Antigone and Ismene enter together, stage left.",p:92,x:94,y:84,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Kommos (choral dialogue)",p:92,x:94,y:135,w:287,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:92,x:94,y:187,w:525,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:92,x:94,y:239,w:116,h:26},
{t:"1670. A luckless and unhappy day",p:92,x:94,y:290,w:373,h:26},
{t:"to wail our father’s blood in us.",p:92,x:94,y:322,w:339,h:26},
{t:"We bore the curse of Oedipus",p:92,x:94,y:354,w:322,h:26},
{t:"that long, long time he lived but now",p:92,x:94,y:385,w:403,h:26},
{t:"is lost to us: we don’t know how",p:92,x:94,y:417,w:352,h:26},
{t:"to travel on for worse or well,",p:92,x:94,y:449,w:322,h:26},
{t:"or even what we have to tell.",p:92,x:94,y:480,w:317,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:92,x:94,y:532,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You mean?",p:92,x:94,y:584,w:120,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:92,x:94,y:635,w:116,h:26},
{t:"We do not know, my friends.",p:92,x:94,y:687,w:315,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:92,x:94,y:739,w:93,h:26},
{t:"He’s gone?",p:92,x:94,y:790,w:119,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:92,x:94,y:842,w:116,h:26},
{t:"He’s gone as kindness sends:",p:92,x:94,y:894,w:321,h:26},
{t:"not in waves or battle’s fight,",p:92,x:94,y:925,w:318,h:26},
{t:"1680. but was snatched to fields of night",p:92,x:94,y:957,w:444,h:26},
{t:"by the almighty’s unseen hand.",p:92,x:94,y:989,w:342,h:26},
{t:"There is some dark to understand,",p:92,x:94,y:1020,w:376,h:26},
{t:"and bitterness we must surmise",p:92,x:94,y:1052,w:347,h:26},
{t:"has come upon our troubled eyes.",p:92,x:94,y:1084,w:371,h:26},
{t:"We do not know what livelihood",p:92,x:94,y:1115,w:346,h:26},
{t:"is ours across the land or waves,",p:92,x:94,y:1147,w:358,h:26},
{t:"how life diminishes or saves.",p:92,x:94,y:1179,w:313,h:26},
{t:"89",p:93,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:93,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"I do not know what prospect could,",p:93,x:89,y:135,w:384,h:26},
{t:"or if to join my father’s place:",p:93,x:89,y:167,w:325,h:26},
{t:"1690. I cannot live the life I face",p:93,x:89,y:199,w:356,h:26},
{t:"when everywhere’s so desolate.",p:93,x:89,y:230,w:347,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:93,x:89,y:282,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Best of daughters, such is fate:",p:93,x:89,y:334,w:342,h:26},
{t:"what heaven gives us must be borne:",p:93,x:89,y:365,w:410,h:26},
{t:"there is no further cause to mourn",p:93,x:89,y:397,w:376,h:26},
{t:"though ills continually persist.",p:93,x:89,y:429,w:325,h:26},
{t:"Thus far you’ve suffered, but must let",p:93,x:89,y:460,w:411,h:26},
{t:"the earth go on to hold you yet.",p:93,x:89,y:492,w:347,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe  (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:93,x:89,y:544,w:533,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:93,x:89,y:595,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Even pains when gone are missed",p:93,x:89,y:647,w:369,h:26},
{t:"and hurt the love of him we’d greet.",p:93,x:89,y:679,w:393,h:26},
{t:"1700. I held him in my firm embrace",p:93,x:89,y:710,w:402,h:26},
{t:"and helped his way on stumbling feet.",p:93,x:89,y:742,w:415,h:26},
{t:"Though steps in darkness he must trace",p:93,x:89,y:774,w:436,h:26},
{t:"he’ll never languish for our love.",p:93,x:89,y:805,w:352,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:93,x:89,y:857,w:93,h:26},
{t:"He fared . . .",p:93,x:89,y:909,w:139,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:93,x:89,y:960,w:116,h:26},
{t:"as wished by heaven above.",p:93,x:89,y:1012,w:307,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:93,x:89,y:1064,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Can that be true?",p:93,x:89,y:1115,w:190,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:93,x:89,y:1167,w:116,h:26},
{t:"He died as willed,",p:93,x:89,y:1219,w:191,h:26},
{t:"on foreign ground his blood is stilled:",p:93,x:89,y:1250,w:406,h:26},
{t:"90",p:94,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"that was his choice and in this place",p:94,x:94,y:84,w:392,h:26},
{t:"he sleeps for ever and has left",p:94,x:94,y:115,w:330,h:26},
{t:"our lives of sorrow far behind.",p:94,x:94,y:147,w:327,h:26},
{t:"1710. Father, not of tears bereft",p:94,x:94,y:179,w:353,h:26},
{t:"I come to mourn with such a mind",p:94,x:94,y:210,w:376,h:26},
{t:"that sorrow overwhelms me; you",p:94,x:94,y:242,w:361,h:26},
{t:"with strangers chose to die,",p:94,x:94,y:274,w:301,h:26},
{t:"and sleep without my being by.",p:94,x:94,y:305,w:342,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:94,x:94,y:357,w:85,h:26},
{t:"My sister, now what can we do?",p:94,x:94,y:409,w:346,h:26},
{t:"Lines 1716-7 missing from original text.",p:94,x:94,y:460,w:436,h:26},
{t:"What life can we anticipate",p:94,x:94,y:512,w:293,h:26},
{t:"if left in such an orphaned state?",p:94,x:94,y:544,w:357,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:94,x:94,y:595,w:93,h:26},
{t:"1720. To a blessed end he went:",p:94,x:94,y:647,w:357,h:26},
{t:"children cease from this lament.",p:94,x:94,y:679,w:350,h:26},
{t:"Mankind is ever apt to stray",p:94,x:94,y:710,w:304,h:26},
{t:"and be to evil fortune prey,",p:94,x:94,y:742,w:298,h:26},
{t:"misfortunes that no mortals stay.",p:94,x:94,y:774,w:364,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:94,x:94,y:825,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:94,x:94,y:877,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Sister, let us now return.",p:94,x:94,y:929,w:272,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:94,x:94,y:980,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Why go back?",p:94,x:94,y:1032,w:151,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:94,x:94,y:1084,w:116,h:26},
{t:"For such I yearn.",p:94,x:94,y:1135,w:186,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:94,x:94,y:1187,w:85,h:26},
{t:"For what?",p:94,x:94,y:1239,w:107,h:26},
{t:"91",p:95,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:95,x:89,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"To see the shadowed bed.",p:95,x:89,y:135,w:284,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:95,x:89,y:187,w:85,h:26},
{t:"A bed?",p:95,x:89,y:239,w:74,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:95,x:89,y:290,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Where father’s laid his head.",p:95,x:89,y:342,w:311,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:95,x:89,y:394,w:85,h:26},
{t:"That is not lawful, cannot be.",p:95,x:89,y:445,w:318,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:95,x:89,y:497,w:116,h:26},
{t:"1730. Sister, be not sore with me.",p:95,x:89,y:549,w:374,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:95,x:89,y:600,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Besides . . .",p:95,x:89,y:652,w:128,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:95,x:89,y:704,w:116,h:26},
{t:"What more must now I hear?",p:95,x:89,y:755,w:318,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:95,x:89,y:807,w:85,h:26},
{t:"That he is tombless: none are near.",p:95,x:89,y:859,w:389,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:95,x:89,y:910,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Lead me over; kill me there.",p:95,x:89,y:962,w:311,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:95,x:89,y:1014,w:85,h:26},
{t:"How shall I, unhappy, fare",p:95,x:89,y:1065,w:288,h:26},
{t:"when I am helpless and alone:",p:95,x:89,y:1097,w:334,h:26},
{t:"to every fear and hardship prone.",p:95,x:89,y:1129,w:366,h:26},
{t:"92",p:96,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:96,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:96,x:94,y:135,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Fear not, for you are kin of ours.",p:96,x:94,y:187,w:356,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:96,x:94,y:239,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Where to go and with what powers?",p:96,x:94,y:290,w:391,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:96,x:94,y:342,w:93,h:26},
{t:"There’s refuge.",p:96,x:94,y:394,w:163,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:96,x:94,y:445,w:116,h:26},
{t:"What is it you’ve thought?",p:96,x:94,y:497,w:285,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:96,x:94,y:549,w:93,h:26},
{t:"1740. And with your fortunes safely brought.",p:96,x:94,y:600,w:490,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:96,x:94,y:652,w:116,h:26},
{t:"That place I know.",p:96,x:94,y:704,w:201,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:96,x:94,y:755,w:93,h:26},
{t:"And so appears?",p:96,x:94,y:807,w:179,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:96,x:94,y:859,w:116,h:26},
{t:"I see it as a haven from my fears",p:96,x:94,y:910,w:362,h:26},
{t:"but see not how we venture home.",p:96,x:94,y:942,w:379,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:96,x:94,y:994,w:93,h:26},
{t:"And do not seek it, still would roam?",p:96,x:94,y:1045,w:398,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:96,x:94,y:1097,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Troubles whelm us.",p:96,x:94,y:1149,w:211,h:26},
{t:"93",p:97,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"CHORUS",p:97,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"As before.",p:97,x:89,y:135,w:110,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:97,x:89,y:187,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Such despair was not before.",p:97,x:89,y:239,w:317,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:97,x:89,y:290,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Troubles round you as a sea.",p:97,x:89,y:342,w:315,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:97,x:89,y:394,w:116,h:26},
{t:"That is so.",p:97,x:89,y:445,w:112,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:97,x:89,y:497,w:93,h:26},
{t:"And must be.",p:97,x:89,y:549,w:146,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:97,x:89,y:600,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Tell us, Zeus, where do we turn,",p:97,x:89,y:652,w:353,h:26},
{t:"1750. in this our sadness and despair:",p:97,x:89,y:684,w:418,h:26},
{t:"what last hope may linger there?",p:97,x:89,y:715,w:359,h:26},
{t:"End of Kommos",p:97,x:89,y:767,w:171,h:26},
{t:"Enter Theseus with attendants, stage left.",p:97,x:89,y:819,w:454,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:97,x:89,y:870,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Dry your tears and no more yearn,",p:97,x:89,y:922,w:380,h:26},
{t:"for excess grief the gods resent.",p:97,x:89,y:954,w:351,h:26},
{t:"The Dark Powers are beneficent.",p:97,x:89,y:985,w:354,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:97,x:89,y:1037,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Theseus to you we pray.",p:97,x:89,y:1089,w:267,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:97,x:89,y:1140,w:102,h:26},
{t:"For what, now children: say.",p:97,x:89,y:1192,w:310,h:26},
{t:"94",p:98,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:98,x:94,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"We would see with our own eyes",p:98,x:94,y:135,w:356,h:26},
{t:"where our father, sleeping, lies.",p:98,x:94,y:167,w:346,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:98,x:94,y:219,w:102,h:26},
{t:"That the very laws deny.",p:98,x:94,y:270,w:269,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:98,x:94,y:322,w:116,h:26},
{t:"How so?",p:98,x:94,y:374,w:90,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:98,x:94,y:425,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1760. Your father told me why.",p:98,x:94,y:477,w:341,h:26},
{t:"None should trespass on his tomb",p:98,x:94,y:509,w:368,h:26},
{t:"or violate its haunts with speech.",p:98,x:94,y:540,w:361,h:26},
{t:"My words, if kept from each to each,",p:98,x:94,y:572,w:400,h:26},
{t:"will guarantee this land stays free",p:98,x:94,y:604,w:367,h:26},
{t:"of conquest and of injury.",p:98,x:94,y:635,w:280,h:26},
{t:"Heard by him my words assume",p:98,x:94,y:667,w:351,h:26},
{t:"an oath to Zeus no man may break.",p:98,x:94,y:699,w:392,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:98,x:94,y:750,w:116,h:26},
{t:"If this be pleasing to the dead",p:98,x:94,y:802,w:327,h:26},
{t:"then we’ll respect it as he said.",p:98,x:94,y:834,w:337,h:26},
{t:"1770. But send us on to Thebes to take",p:98,x:94,y:865,w:431,h:26},
{t:"some part in countering the strife",p:98,x:94,y:897,w:365,h:26},
{t:"that threatens brothers with their life.",p:98,x:94,y:929,w:411,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:98,x:94,y:980,w:102,h:26},
{t:"That I’ll do, and would not spare",p:98,x:94,y:1032,w:354,h:26},
{t:"for one who’s gone a single care.",p:98,x:94,y:1064,w:360,h:26},
{t:"On every need I will attend",p:98,x:94,y:1095,w:296,h:26},
{t:"to gladden him who was my friend.",p:98,x:94,y:1127,w:384,h:26},
{t:"CHORUS",p:98,x:94,y:1179,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Be not into sadness cast,",p:98,x:94,y:1230,w:272,h:26},
{t:"but let your sorrows weaken fast:",p:98,x:94,y:1262,w:366,h:26},
{t:"95",p:99,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"What’s now was always, and will last.",p:99,x:89,y:84,w:408,h:26},
{t:"End of Play",p:99,x:89,y:187,w:121,h:26},
{t:"96",p:100,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION",p:100,x:94,y:114,w:394,h:31},
{t:"Most translators of the last fifty years have stressed the dramatic aspects of",p:100,x:94,y:164,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Oedipus at Colonus, loosening the metrical structure, but the play may also",p:100,x:94,y:195,w:808,h:26},
{t:"be seen as a long symphonic poem that weaves in actor, chorus, dance and",p:100,x:94,y:227,w:809,h:26},
{t:"song through a mixture of verse forms that divide its 1779 lines into six",p:100,x:94,y:259,w:809,h:26},
{t:"parts: a prologos, four interior sections, and an exodos:",p:100,x:94,y:290,w:610,h:26},
{t:"Part One: Prologos: lines 1-253. Arrival of Oedipus and Antigone. Includes",p:100,x:94,y:342,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the parados (117-253), in which Oedipus is questioned by the chorus.",p:100,x:94,y:374,w:763,h:26},
{t:"Part Two: lines 254-719. Appearance of Ismene and Theseus. Includes a",p:100,x:94,y:425,w:808,h:26},
{t:"first kommos (510-548) in which Oedipus is further pressed by the chorus,",p:100,x:94,y:457,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and the first stasimon (668-719), the paean to Colonus (in effect Athens).",p:100,x:94,y:489,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Part Three: lines 720-1095. Appearance of Creon. Includes the second",p:100,x:94,y:540,w:808,h:26},
{t:"stasimon (1044-95) and the rousing battle chorus.",p:100,x:94,y:572,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Part Four: lines 1096-1248. Return of the women. Includes the third",p:100,x:94,y:624,w:807,h:26},
{t:"stasimon (1211-48): it’s better not to be born.",p:100,x:94,y:655,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Part Five: lines 1249-1578. Appeal by Polyneices, and death of Oedipus.",p:100,x:94,y:707,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Includes a second kommos (1447-56) in which the chorus intone that there",p:100,x:94,y:739,w:808,h:26},
{t:"is no escape from evil, a third kommos (1477-85) in which the chorus",p:100,x:94,y:770,w:809,h:26},
{t:"appeals to Zeus, and the fourth stasimon (1556-78) in which the chorus",p:100,x:94,y:802,w:807,h:26},
{t:"conveys Oedipus to the afterworld.",p:100,x:94,y:834,w:380,h:26},
{t:"Part Six: Exodos: lines 1579-1779. Includes a fourth kommos (1670-1750)",p:100,x:94,y:885,w:808,h:26},
{t:"in which chorus and women lament Oedipus’s death, and the women decide",p:100,x:94,y:917,w:808,h:26},
{t:"to return to Thebes.",p:100,x:94,y:949,w:218,h:26},
{t:"The original is written in verse, all of it, but that verse is not to a constant",p:100,x:94,y:1000,w:808,h:26},
{t:"metrical base — unlike, for example, Shakespeare’s blank verse, which",p:100,x:94,y:1032,w:808,h:26},
{t:"plays variations on the pentameter. To greatly simplify, the bulk of the play",p:100,x:94,y:1064,w:809,h:26},
{t:"is written in iambic trimeter (x",p:100,x:94,y:1095,w:341,h:26},
{t:"˘˘  ",p:100,x:446,y:1106,w:29,h:17},
{t:"˘  ",p:100,x:481,y:1106,w:19,h:17},
{t:"˘˘ |",p:100,x:506,y:1106,w:32,h:17},
{t:"x",p:100,x:549,y:1104,w:7,h:16},
{t:"˘˘  ",p:100,x:565,y:1106,w:29,h:17},
{t:"˘  ",p:100,x:600,y:1106,w:19,h:17},
{t:"˘˘ |",p:100,x:625,y:1106,w:32,h:17},
{t:"x",p:100,x:668,y:1104,w:7,h:16},
{t:"˘˘  ",p:100,x:686,y:1106,w:29,h:17},
{t:"˘",p:100,x:721,y:1106,w:9,h:17},
{t:"x, where",p:100,x:746,y:1095,w:92,h:26},
{t:"ˉ",p:100,x:848,y:1106,w:8,h:17},
{t:"can",p:100,x:864,y:1095,w:37,h:26},
{t:"substitute for",p:100,x:94,y:1127,w:145,h:26},
{t:"˘˘ ,",p:100,x:246,y:1138,w:31,h:17},
{t:"and a caesura appear in one of two places in the middle",p:100,x:283,y:1127,w:618,h:26},
{t:"foot,but the choral sections are much more varied. Jebb’s critical edition of",p:100,x:94,y:1159,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the play provides the details,3 but the following measures occur:",p:100,x:94,y:1188,w:703,h:28},
{t:"1. lagaoedic or prose-verse consisting of the choree (ˉ ˘) and the cyclic",p:100,x:94,y:1242,w:808,h:27},
{t:"97",p:101,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"dactyl (ˉ ˘ ˘). Found in the parados, first and fourth kommos, and in all the",p:101,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:27},
{t:"stasimons.",p:101,x:89,y:115,w:116,h:26},
{t:"2. dochmiacs consisting of the bacchius (ˉ ˉ ˘) and the shortened choree (ˉ).",p:101,x:89,y:167,w:807,h:27},
{t:"Found in the second section and the second kommos.",p:101,x:89,y:199,w:584,h:26},
{t:"3. ionic verse, consisting of the measure",p:101,x:89,y:250,w:441,h:26},
{t:"ˉ ˉ ˘ ˘. Found in the parados.",p:101,x:545,y:250,w:303,h:27},
{t:"Sophocles is often difficult, occasionally inscrutable, but never less than",p:101,x:89,y:302,w:807,h:26},
{t:"formal. Several lines of the play have been lost, and a few seem corrupt,",p:101,x:89,y:334,w:807,h:26},
{t:"but scholars believe the text we have now is essentially correct. The",p:101,x:89,y:365,w:808,h:26},
{t:"language is often terse but beautiful, and the dialogue in particular shows",p:101,x:89,y:397,w:808,h:26},
{t:"great flexibility. “It is a mark of Sophoclean writing that it operates within",p:101,x:89,y:429,w:808,h:26},
{t:"highly formalized structures but uses those structures with masterly tact",p:101,x:89,y:460,w:810,h:26},
{t:"and subtlety.” 2",p:101,x:89,y:490,w:168,h:28},
{t:"The translation and line numbering adopted are those of Sir Richard Jebb. 3",p:101,x:89,y:541,w:808,h:28},
{t:"4 More to make the play work as an extended poem than for academic",p:101,x:89,y:573,w:807,h:28},
{t:"correctness, I have:",p:101,x:89,y:607,w:218,h:26},
{t:"1. Respected the structure of the play, keeping its six sections, the included",p:101,x:89,y:659,w:807,h:26},
{t:"kommos and stasimon sections, and the strophe and antistrophe aspects of",p:101,x:89,y:690,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the chorus.",p:101,x:89,y:722,w:122,h:26},
{t:"2. Written a quiet verse that retains Jebb’s line arrangements, both in",p:101,x:89,y:774,w:808,h:26},
{t:"number and metrical type. Where, for example, the Greek text shows a",p:101,x:89,y:805,w:810,h:26},
{t:"speech of eleven and a half lines, I have also written a speech of that",p:101,x:89,y:837,w:808,h:26},
{t:"length.",p:101,x:89,y:869,w:76,h:26},
{t:"3. Adopted an unobtrusive rhyme to give formal expression to the lines,",p:101,x:89,y:920,w:808,h:26},
{t:"making the rhyme schemes integral to each section or subsection.",p:101,x:89,y:952,w:722,h:26},
{t:"4. Employed pentameters for the iambic trimeter of the dialogues, and",p:101,x:89,y:1004,w:808,h:26},
{t:"tetrameters for the shorter lines of the remainder.",p:101,x:89,y:1035,w:547,h:26},
{t:"The original text is of course unrhymed, and the plain nature of the",p:101,x:89,y:1087,w:810,h:26},
{t:"dialogues is prevented from falling into the prosaic by Sophocles’s skill in",p:101,x:89,y:1119,w:807,h:26},
{t:"handling the quantitative metre. The choral sections, and the interchanges",p:101,x:89,y:1150,w:807,h:26},
{t:"between cast and chorus, are often more terse still, and yield their sense",p:101,x:89,y:1182,w:808,h:26},
{t:"with difficulty: great poetry but somewhat gnomic and in places inscrutable.",p:101,x:89,y:1214,w:808,h:26},
{t:"98",p:102,x:488,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"I have followed the Jebb interpretation, as have largely all subsequent",p:102,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"translators, but there are difficulties that should be noted. First is that the",p:102,x:94,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"quantitative Greek measures cannot be reproduced in English. The nearest",p:102,x:94,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"we have for dialogue is the pentameter, but this is often a little larger than",p:102,x:94,y:179,w:809,h:26},
{t:"needed to encompass the prose meaning. Though this translation is the",p:102,x:94,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"most concise rendering I’m aware of, many of the longer speeches could be",p:102,x:94,y:242,w:807,h:26},
{t:"reduced by a line or two without loss. Similarly for the choral sections,",p:102,x:94,y:274,w:807,h:26},
{t:"which are even more compact than shown. Since the translated lines can’t",p:102,x:94,y:305,w:809,h:26},
{t:"be shortened — without writing some form of Pindaric or free verse, which",p:102,x:94,y:337,w:808,h:26},
{t:"would be inappropriate to the formal nature of Sophoclean tragedy — the",p:102,x:94,y:369,w:808,h:26},
{t:"only recourse would be to cut the number of lines and lose the original",p:102,x:94,y:400,w:807,h:26},
{t:"structure of the text. Jebb does this in his prose translation,3 but I have",p:102,x:94,y:430,w:808,h:28},
{t:"thought it better not to do so with verse. I have therefore expressed some",p:102,x:94,y:464,w:807,h:26},
{t:"lines more loosely than the original.",p:102,x:94,y:495,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Rhyme here is simply an expedient to draw the verse together and give it",p:102,x:94,y:547,w:808,h:26},
{t:"shape and point. Earlier translators generally wrote rhymed verse, at least",p:102,x:94,y:579,w:808,h:26},
{t:"for the choral sections, but later translators have opted for a blank verse or",p:102,x:94,y:610,w:808,h:26},
{t:"blank verse verging on prose or free verse. The difficulty then is the",p:102,x:94,y:642,w:808,h:26},
{t:"pedestrian nature of the resulting dialogue, which may sound natural and",p:102,x:94,y:674,w:807,h:26},
{t:"contemporary, but loses power and dignity. An example may make this",p:102,x:94,y:705,w:808,h:26},
{t:"clear. Here is the opening of the play in blank verse, i.e. unrhymed",p:102,x:94,y:737,w:808,h:26},
{t:"pentameters:",p:102,x:94,y:769,w:146,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:102,x:94,y:820,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Look and tell me now, Antigone,",p:102,x:94,y:872,w:352,h:26},
{t:"what land or city have we come to here?",p:102,x:94,y:904,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Inform your old blind father Oedipus",p:102,x:94,y:935,w:398,h:26},
{t:"what men we ask to take the wanderer in,",p:102,x:94,y:967,w:460,h:26},
{t:"to give the little asked for so he live.",p:102,x:94,y:999,w:400,h:26},
{t:"And even less than that he will accept",p:102,x:94,y:1030,w:412,h:26},
{t:"as suffering teaches with increasing years",p:102,x:94,y:1062,w:456,h:26},
{t:"to join his dignity and royal birth.",p:102,x:94,y:1094,w:364,h:26},
{t:"Is there, my child, some grove or common",p:102,x:94,y:1125,w:466,h:26},
{t:"ground where we may linger for the while",p:102,x:94,y:1157,w:455,h:26},
{t:"to ask of passing strangers: where we be,",p:102,x:94,y:1189,w:457,h:26},
{t:"and what’s expected of us, which we’ll do?",p:102,x:94,y:1220,w:463,h:26},
{t:"99",p:103,x:483,y:1291,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:103,x:89,y:84,w:116,h:26},
{t:"Long-suffering father Oedipus: the towns",p:103,x:89,y:135,w:449,h:26},
{t:"and towers I see are still a long way off",p:103,x:89,y:167,w:431,h:26},
{t:"but where we stand is surely holy ground",p:103,x:89,y:199,w:449,h:26},
{t:"thick blessed with olive, vine and laurel",p:103,x:89,y:230,w:429,h:26},
{t:"and — listen — there are nightingales in song.",p:103,x:89,y:262,w:504,h:26},
{t:"So therefore on this natural slab of rock",p:103,x:89,y:294,w:434,h:26},
{t:"we will sit down, for you have travelled far.",p:103,x:89,y:325,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Accurate, but undistinguished.  In the rhymed version of this translation,",p:103,x:89,y:377,w:808,h:26},
{t:"these sections run:",p:103,x:89,y:409,w:208,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:103,x:89,y:460,w:100,h:26},
{t:"What land or city now, Antigone?",p:103,x:89,y:512,w:360,h:26},
{t:"Come tell your old blind father what you see.",p:103,x:89,y:544,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Who’ll take in wandering Oedipus and give",p:103,x:89,y:575,w:464,h:26},
{t:"the little that he begs for so he live?",p:103,x:89,y:607,w:394,h:26},
{t:"Or less than that will do: the years have brought",p:103,x:89,y:639,w:530,h:26},
{t:"acceptance of his sufferings, as they ought.",p:103,x:89,y:670,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Long roads and hardship are his friends on earth",p:103,x:89,y:702,w:530,h:26},
{t:"who had nobility in royal birth.",p:103,x:89,y:734,w:334,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps now, child, you see some resting place,",p:103,x:89,y:765,w:524,h:26},
{t:"10. some grove or common ground where we may face",p:103,x:89,y:797,w:604,h:26},
{t:"the blunt enquiries there are bound to be.",p:103,x:89,y:829,w:457,h:26},
{t:"We come as strangers here, and scrupulously",p:103,x:89,y:860,w:495,h:26},
{t:"must show propriety to local powers.",p:103,x:89,y:892,w:403,h:26},
{t:"ANTIGONE",p:103,x:89,y:944,w:116,h:26},
{t:"My careworn father, Oedipus, the towers",p:103,x:89,y:995,w:444,h:26},
{t:"that guard the city seem but distant still,",p:103,x:89,y:1027,w:445,h:26},
{t:"a long way off from us, but here we will",p:103,x:89,y:1059,w:432,h:26},
{t:"sit down and rest in what is holy ground",p:103,x:89,y:1090,w:437,h:26},
{t:"with vine and olive, laurel and the sound",p:103,x:89,y:1122,w:443,h:26},
{t:"of the sweet nightingale singing. Now on",p:103,x:89,y:1154,w:443,h:26},
{t:"20. this flat rock rest for such a long way gone.",p:103,x:89,y:1185,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Much depends on the original text, of course. Given an intrinsic beauty, as",p:103,x:89,y:1237,w:808,h:26},
{t:"100",p:104,x:482,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"in the famous choral ode to Colonus, blank verse may well rise to the",p:104,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"occasion:",p:104,x:94,y:115,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:104,x:94,y:167,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Stranger: this is Colonus you've come to,",p:104,x:94,y:219,w:451,h:26},
{t:"670. a land famed for horses and for shining calm.",p:104,x:94,y:250,w:551,h:26},
{t:"No storms can hurt her nor the scorching sun",p:104,x:94,y:282,w:494,h:26},
{t:"for here are depths of forests, ripe with fruit,",p:104,x:94,y:314,w:489,h:26},
{t:"and glades with berries where the nightingale",p:104,x:94,y:345,w:496,h:26},
{t:"among the wine-dark ivy comes to sing.",p:104,x:94,y:377,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Here the revelling Dionysus",p:104,x:94,y:409,w:300,h:26},
{t:"walks beneath the sacred boughs with nymphs,",p:104,x:94,y:440,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:104,x:94,y:492,w:525,h:26},
{t:"680. and, bathed in dew, the white narcissi flower",p:104,x:94,y:555,w:544,h:26},
{t:"to crown the heads of ancient goddesses,",p:104,x:94,y:587,w:451,h:26},
{t:"and there are crocuses in bloom with soft gold hue.",p:104,x:94,y:619,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Fed incessantly by fountains here,",p:104,x:94,y:650,w:372,h:26},
{t:"the Cephisus is fertile through a plain",p:104,x:94,y:682,w:407,h:26},
{t:"on which the Muses never scorn to dance,",p:104,x:94,y:714,w:457,h:26},
{t:"690. nor Aphrodite of the golden rein.",p:104,x:94,y:745,w:413,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:104,x:94,y:797,w:525,h:26},
{t:"And what's unknown in Asia, even on",p:104,x:94,y:849,w:406,h:26},
{t:"the Dorian isle of Pelops here abounds",p:104,x:94,y:880,w:419,h:26},
{t:"in thick profusion: the grey-leafed olive tree:",p:104,x:94,y:912,w:491,h:26},
{t:"that never conquered, self-renewing thing",p:104,x:94,y:944,w:458,h:26},
{t:"that foils our enemies but is to children",p:104,x:94,y:975,w:427,h:26},
{t:"700. nourishment, protected youth to age",p:104,x:94,y:1007,w:457,h:26},
{t:"by Zeus who watches it with sleepless eye,",p:104,x:94,y:1039,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Athena also with her grey-eyed stare.",p:104,x:94,y:1070,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:104,x:94,y:1122,w:525,h:26},
{t:"But most we glory in our mother city",p:104,x:94,y:1174,w:401,h:26},
{t:"with might of horses, might of sea, for here",p:104,x:94,y:1205,w:476,h:26},
{t:"710. a great divinity, the son of Cronus,",p:104,x:94,y:1237,w:436,h:26},
{t:"101",p:105,x:478,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"has given us the rule of roads and waves:",p:105,x:89,y:84,w:457,h:26},
{t:"an iron bit to curb our raging horses,",p:105,x:89,y:115,w:402,h:26},
{t:"and oar so fashioned that, across the seas,",p:105,x:89,y:147,w:469,h:26},
{t:"it haul us speedily, to rise and fall",p:105,x:89,y:179,w:368,h:26},
{t:"after the hundred-footed Nereids.",p:105,x:89,y:210,w:366,h:26},
{t:"Unfortunately, these 31 lines are represented by 52 in the original Greek,",p:105,x:89,y:262,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and the strophe / antistrophe parts do not seem a natural division. In",p:105,x:89,y:294,w:807,h:26},
{t:"contrast, regularly rhymed quatrains give a pleasing shape to long choral",p:105,x:89,y:325,w:807,h:26},
{t:"sections, but the sense is too much led by rhyme needs:",p:105,x:89,y:357,w:617,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:105,x:89,y:409,w:525,h:26},
{t:"You come to Colonus, a land of peace,",p:105,x:89,y:460,w:418,h:26},
{t:"670. white haze and horses and of windless shade:",p:105,x:89,y:492,w:556,h:26},
{t:"in glades of wine-dark ivy, unafraid,",p:105,x:89,y:524,w:393,h:26},
{t:"the songs of nightingales can never cease.",p:105,x:89,y:555,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Inviolate is the foliage: to this ground",p:105,x:89,y:607,w:411,h:26},
{t:"so rich with berries and with fruiting things,",p:105,x:89,y:639,w:475,h:26},
{t:"the nymphs of Dionysus come, with revellings",p:105,x:89,y:670,w:501,h:26},
{t:"to nurse their master with a haunting sound.",p:105,x:89,y:702,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:105,x:89,y:754,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Here flows the Cephisus, from fountains drawn",p:105,x:89,y:805,w:510,h:26},
{t:"680. unceasingly: and crocuses throw down",p:105,x:89,y:837,w:477,h:26},
{t:"their gold with dewed narcissi, white, that crown",p:105,x:89,y:869,w:529,h:26},
{t:"the ancient goddesses from dawn to dawn.",p:105,x:89,y:900,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Thus blessed, the river through our swelling plain",p:105,x:89,y:952,w:538,h:26},
{t:"pours water daily in its tidal race.",p:105,x:89,y:984,w:364,h:26},
{t:"Nor do the laughing Muses shun this place,",p:105,x:89,y:1015,w:469,h:26},
{t:"690. nor Aphrodite with her golden train.",p:105,x:89,y:1047,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Strophe (chorus turns to dance in one direction)",p:105,x:89,y:1099,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Here more than islands off or Asia knows",p:105,x:89,y:1150,w:447,h:26},
{t:"we have our hills of grey-leafed olive trees:",p:105,x:89,y:1182,w:474,h:26},
{t:"for youth a livelihood, for age an ease,",p:105,x:89,y:1214,w:421,h:26},
{t:"102",p:106,x:482,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"a rich profusion that confounds our foes.",p:106,x:94,y:84,w:442,h:26},
{t:"They're watched forever in great Zeus's eye,",p:106,x:94,y:135,w:486,h:26},
{t:"and in the grey eyes of Athena held:",p:106,x:94,y:167,w:398,h:26},
{t:"700. they nurture children and are never felled",p:106,x:94,y:199,w:511,h:26},
{t:"but as unconquered gods on high slopes lie.",p:106,x:94,y:230,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Antistrophe (chorus reverses direction of dance)",p:106,x:94,y:282,w:525,h:26},
{t:"But most we praise our mother city, writ",p:106,x:94,y:334,w:442,h:26},
{t:"710. in glory of our god, the son of Cronus,",p:106,x:94,y:365,w:474,h:26},
{t:"who for our mastery of roads has shown us",p:106,x:94,y:397,w:473,h:26},
{t:"the rage of horses reigned with iron bit.",p:106,x:94,y:429,w:433,h:26},
{t:"More prodigal, he's given us to meet",p:106,x:94,y:480,w:399,h:26},
{t:"the dash of sea waves and their angry thrall",p:106,x:94,y:512,w:480,h:26},
{t:"a clean-limbed oar to crest them, leap and fall",p:106,x:94,y:544,w:504,h:26},
{t:"after the Nereids' myriad feet.",p:106,x:94,y:575,w:328,h:26},
{t:"I have therefore compromised, adopting rhymed couplets for the",p:106,x:94,y:627,w:709,h:26},
{t:"dialogue and free rhyme schemes for the choral exchanges. The",p:106,x:94,y:659,w:698,h:26},
{t:"exchanges respect the structure of the original, and sometimes pick up",p:106,x:94,y:690,w:774,h:26},
{t:"or return the rhyme schemes of the dialogue. The overall intention is to",p:106,x:94,y:722,w:780,h:26},
{t:"make the play work as an extended poem without sacrificing its dramatic",p:106,x:94,y:754,w:797,h:26},
{t:"powers.",p:106,x:94,y:785,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Finally, it should be noted that the dialogue sections are often rendered in a",p:106,x:94,y:837,w:808,h:26},
{t:"less static manner than the original. An extreme example: lines 49-51 run",p:106,x:94,y:869,w:808,h:26},
{t:"in Jebb’s literal rendering as:4",p:106,x:94,y:898,w:325,h:28},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:106,x:94,y:952,w:100,h:26},
{t:"Now for the gods’ love, stranger, refuse me not, hapless wanderer that I",p:106,x:94,y:1004,w:792,h:26},
{t:"am, the knowledge for which I sue thee.",p:106,x:94,y:1035,w:440,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:106,x:94,y:1087,w:119,h:26},
{t:"Speak, and from me thou shalt find no refusal.",p:106,x:94,y:1139,w:511,h:26},
{t:"which I have rendered as:",p:106,x:94,y:1190,w:285,h:26},
{t:"OEDIPUS",p:106,x:94,y:1242,w:100,h:26},
{t:"103",p:107,x:478,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"To this one wandering what place he go",p:107,x:89,y:84,w:433,h:26},
{t:"50. you’ll not deny the facts he has to know?",p:107,x:89,y:115,w:489,h:26},
{t:"STRANGER",p:107,x:89,y:167,w:119,h:26},
{t:"Ask. I’d not be thought discourteous.",p:107,x:89,y:219,w:404,h:26},
{t:"Small matters, but bearing on the authenticity of the translation.",p:107,x:89,y:270,w:708,h:26},
{t:"104",p:108,x:482,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"GLOSSA RY",p:108,x:94,y:114,w:148,h:31},
{t:"40. Goddesses: Eumenides or Furies: the spirits of punishment without",p:108,x:94,y:164,w:808,h:26},
{t:"mercy.",p:108,x:94,y:195,w:75,h:26},
{t:"54. Poseidon: God of earthquakes, the sea and horses.",p:108,x:94,y:247,w:599,h:26},
{t:"56. Prometheus: in Greek myth the champion of mankind against the Gods:",p:108,x:94,y:299,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the bringer of fire from heaven.",p:108,x:94,y:330,w:344,h:26},
{t:"58. Brazen Threshold: the hill at Colonus, perhaps protecting the approach",p:108,x:94,y:382,w:808,h:26},
{t:"to the Athenian citadel.",p:108,x:94,y:414,w:253,h:26},
{t:"60. Colonus: birthplace of Sophocles, one mile north-west of the principal",p:108,x:94,y:465,w:807,h:26},
{t:"gate of Athens.",p:108,x:94,y:497,w:166,h:26},
{t:"69. Aegeus: father of Theseus and King of Athens.",p:108,x:94,y:549,w:549,h:26},
{t:"86. Phoebus: radiant Apollo.",p:108,x:94,y:600,w:310,h:26},
{t:"97. Zeus: the supreme god in Greek myth and religion.",p:108,x:94,y:652,w:603,h:26},
{t:"103. Apollo: son of Zeus and patron of the arts.",p:108,x:94,y:704,w:522,h:26},
{t:"219. Laïus: father of Oedipus.",p:108,x:94,y:755,w:325,h:26},
{t:"221. Labdicus: family line of Oedipus.",p:108,x:94,y:807,w:411,h:26},
{t:"338. Egyptian ways: borrowed from the history of Herodotus.",p:108,x:94,y:859,w:671,h:26},
{t:"356. Cadmeians: people of Thebes, named after Cadmus, the city founder.",p:108,x:94,y:910,w:807,h:26},
{t:"540. prize: in solving the riddle of the Sphinx, Oedipus became King of",p:108,x:94,y:962,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Thebes and husband to Jocasta.",p:108,x:94,y:994,w:349,h:26},
{t:"601. parricide: the unknown man Oedipus killed on the road to Thebes was",p:108,x:94,y:1045,w:809,h:26},
{t:"his father.",p:108,x:94,y:1077,w:111,h:26},
{t:"679. Dionysus: son of Zeus by Semele: god of wine and ecstasy.",p:108,x:94,y:1129,w:708,h:26},
{t:"682. goddesses of old: Demeter and Persephone, presiding deities of the",p:108,x:94,y:1180,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Eleusinian mysteries.",p:108,x:94,y:1212,w:230,h:26},
{t:"105",p:109,x:478,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"684. Cephisus: river of Attica not running dry in summer (as most rivers",p:109,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"do).",p:109,x:89,y:115,w:44,h:26},
{t:"690. Aphrodite: Goddess of love: her chariot is often depicted with golden",p:109,x:89,y:167,w:807,h:26},
{t:"reins drawn by birds.",p:109,x:89,y:199,w:230,h:26},
{t:"694. Pelop’s isle: the Peloponnese.",p:109,x:89,y:250,w:380,h:26},
{t:"705. Morian Zeus: Zeus as protector of olive trees in Attica.",p:109,x:89,y:302,w:651,h:26},
{t:"708. Cronus: youngest of the Titans. Married his sister Rhea to produce the",p:109,x:89,y:354,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Olympian Gods.",p:109,x:89,y:385,w:173,h:26},
{t:"719. Nereids: sea nymphs.",p:109,x:89,y:437,w:293,h:26},
{t:"949. Mount Ares: hill in Athens and site of first law-court.",p:109,x:89,y:489,w:627,h:26},
{t:"962. incest: Oedipus unknowingly married his mother Jocasta at Thebes.",p:109,x:89,y:540,w:794,h:26},
{t:"980. sister: Jocasta, Oedipus’s mother and wife, was the sister of Creon.",p:109,x:89,y:592,w:793,h:26},
{t:"1052. Eumolpidae: family with duties at the Eleusinian mysteries.",p:109,x:89,y:644,w:717,h:26},
{t:"1060. Oea: peak on route to battle, possibly Mount Aegaleos.",p:109,x:89,y:695,w:671,h:26},
{t:"1090. Athena Pallas: name of Athena from playmate or the giant Pallas she",p:109,x:89,y:747,w:808,h:26},
{t:"overcame.",p:109,x:89,y:779,w:113,h:26},
{t:"1222. Hades: brother of Zeus and Poseidon, ruler of the underworld.",p:109,x:89,y:830,w:749,h:26},
{t:"1295. Eteocles: son of Oedipus and brother to Polyneices.",p:109,x:89,y:882,w:631,h:26},
{t:"1302. Argos: city in the north-east Peloponnese.",p:109,x:89,y:934,w:530,h:26},
{t:"1305. Apian: of Argos.",p:109,x:89,y:985,w:246,h:26},
{t:"1391. Tartarus: deepest region of the underworld.",p:109,x:89,y:1037,w:547,h:26},
{t:"1533. Dragon’s brood: in myth the people of Thebes, the principal city of",p:109,x:89,y:1089,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Boetia, sprang from dragon’s teeth sown by Cadmus, the city founder.",p:109,x:89,y:1120,w:768,h:26},
{t:"1538. Hermes: messenger of the Gods.",p:109,x:89,y:1172,w:430,h:26},
{t:"1559. Aïdoneus: Homeric form of Hades.",p:109,x:89,y:1224,w:445,h:26},
{t:"106",p:110,x:482,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"1564. Stygian: of Hades.",p:110,x:94,y:84,w:272,h:26},
{t:"1568. hound: three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.",p:110,x:94,y:135,w:737,h:26},
{t:"1593. Pirithoüs: friend of Theseus who attempted to kidnap Persephone",p:110,x:94,y:187,w:807,h:26},
{t:"from the underworld.",p:110,x:94,y:219,w:231,h:26},
{t:"1593-95: basin, Thorician boss, pear-tree and marble tomb: unknown to",p:110,x:94,y:270,w:807,h:26},
{t:"history but apparently features of the Colonus hill.",p:110,x:94,y:302,w:548,h:26},
{t:"1600. Demeter: Goddess of grain crops.",p:110,x:94,y:354,w:439,h:26},
{t:"107",p:111,x:478,y:1291,w:30,h:21},
{t:"REFERENCES",p:111,x:89,y:114,w:157,h:31},
{t:"I have found works by Jebb, Storr and Fagles to be the most helpful, but",p:111,x:89,y:164,w:807,h:26},
{t:"material consulted includes:",p:111,x:89,y:195,w:305,h:26},
{t:"1. Knox, B.M.W. The Heroic Temper. (University of California Press, 1992).",p:111,x:89,y:247,w:807,h:26},
{t:"2. Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds.) The Oxford Classical Dictionary.",p:111,x:89,y:299,w:807,h:26},
{t:"3rd Edition. (Oxford University Press, 2003), 1424.",p:111,x:89,y:328,w:549,h:28},
{t:"3. Jebb, R.C.  and Shuckburg, E.S. (ed.)",p:111,x:89,y:382,w:497,h:26},
{t:"The Oedipus Coloneus of",p:111,x:603,y:382,w:293,h:26},
{t:"Sophocles: with a commentary, abridged from the large edition. (Cambridge",p:111,x:89,y:414,w:809,h:26},
{t:"University Press, 1955). Indispensable for the details.",p:111,x:89,y:445,w:586,h:26},
{t:"4. Jebb, R.C.",p:111,x:89,y:497,w:146,h:26},
{t:"The Tragedies of Sophocles Translated into English Prose.",p:111,x:247,y:497,w:649,h:26},
{t:"(Cambridge University Press, 1928). A prose-poetry version, faithful but",p:111,x:89,y:529,w:807,h:26},
{t:"dated in diction.",p:111,x:89,y:560,w:175,h:26},
{t:"5. Murray, G. Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus. (George Allen and Unwin,",p:111,x:89,y:612,w:807,h:26},
{t:"1948). A once-popular version, now rather dated: rhymed throughout.",p:111,x:89,y:644,w:770,h:26},
{t:"6. Storr. F.",p:111,x:89,y:695,w:129,h:26},
{t:"Sophocles with an English Translation. (Harvard University",p:111,x:231,y:695,w:666,h:26},
{t:"Press, 1956). A pleasing version now rather dated: dialogue in blank verse,",p:111,x:89,y:727,w:808,h:26},
{t:"choral sections rhymed.",p:111,x:89,y:759,w:259,h:26},
{t:"7. Grene, D. and Lattimore, R. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King: Oedipus at",p:111,x:89,y:810,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Colonus (translated by Robert Fitzgerald): Antigone. (University of Chicago",p:111,x:89,y:842,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Press, 1970). A well-regarded version in contemporary language: dialogue",p:111,x:89,y:874,w:807,h:26},
{t:"in free blank verse, choral sections sometimes rhymed.",p:111,x:89,y:905,w:603,h:26},
{t:"8. Roche, P. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Complete Texts of Oedip us the",p:111,x:89,y:957,w:810,h:26},
{t:"King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. (Plume, 1996). A vigorous and informal",p:111,x:89,y:989,w:809,h:26},
{t:"version in ‘free-wheeling iambic measure’: a little overwritten in places.",p:111,x:89,y:1020,w:781,h:26},
{t:"9. Fagles, R. Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the",p:111,x:89,y:1072,w:808,h:26},
{t:"King, Oedipus at Colonus. (Penguin, 1984). A contemporary version with",p:111,x:89,y:1104,w:808,h:26},
{t:"helpful notes and glossary: loose blank verse for dialogue, free verse for",p:111,x:89,y:1135,w:808,h:26},
{t:"choral sections.",p:111,x:89,y:1167,w:169,h:26},
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