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| Translation | Lines 1-8 (OEDIPUS) |
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| Grene (Chicago) | Children, young sons and daughters of old Cadmus, Why do you sit here with your suppliant crowns? The town is heavy with a mingled burden of sounds and smells, of groans and hymns and incense; I did not think it fit that I should hear of this from messengers but came myself,— I Oedipus whom all men call the Great. |
| Jebb | My children, latest-born to Cadmus who was of old, why are ye set before me thus with wreathed branches of suppliants, while the city reeks with incense, rings with prayers for health and cries of woe? I deemed it unmeet, my children, to hear these things at the mouth of others, and have come hither myself, I, Oedipus renowned of all. |