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Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles · Classic Plays Collection

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  Speaker 1: Part one of Oedipus. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Oedipus the
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  Speaker 1: King by Sophocles, translation by F. Storr. Dramatis Personae Oedipus
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  Speaker 1: performed by and Dementa, The Priest of Zeus read by Hammadaul.
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  Speaker 2: Creon, performed by Father Zilei.
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  Speaker 1: Chorus of theban Elders read by Musical heart I Tyresius
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  Speaker 1: performed brionn The bard.
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  Speaker 3: Jocasta performed by Lenny.
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  Speaker 4: Messenger performed by Caroline Francis.
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  Speaker 1: Heard of Lias read Heavit Second Messer performed by Philippa
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald and narrated by Elizabeth Klett. Scene Thebes before the
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  Speaker 1: Palace of Oedipus. Suppliants of all ages are seated round
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  Speaker 1: the altar at the palace doors. At their head a
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  Speaker 1: priest of Zeus to them, enter, Oedipus.
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  Speaker 5: My children latest born to Cadmus. Old, why sit ye here?
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  Speaker 5: A suppliants in your hands? Branches of olive fileted with wool.
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  Speaker 5: What means this reek of incense? Everywhere and everywhere? Laments
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  Speaker 5: and litanies children, it were not meet that I should
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  Speaker 5: learn from others, and am hither come myself, Ay Edipus,
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  Speaker 5: your world renowned king, O aged sire, whose venerable locks
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  Speaker 5: proclaim the spokesman of this company, explain your mood and purport.
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  Speaker 5: Is it dread of ill that moves you? Or a boon?
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  Speaker 5: Ye crave my zeal in your behalf. Ye are not
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  Speaker 5: doubt ruthless. Indeed were I and obdurate if such petitioners
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  Speaker 5: as you I spurned.
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  Speaker 6: Ya Oedipus, my sovereign lord and king, thou seest how
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  Speaker 6: both extremes of age perceived thy palace altars, fledglings, hardly winged,
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  Speaker 6: and gray beards bowed with years priests, as am I
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  Speaker 6: of Zeus, And these are the flower of our youth. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 6: the common folk, with wreathed boughs crowd our to market places,
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  Speaker 6: or before both shrines of palace congregate, or where Ismades
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  Speaker 6: gives his oracles by fire. For as thou seest thyself,
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  Speaker 6: our ship of state, saw buffetted, can no more lift
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  Speaker 6: her head foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood. A
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  Speaker 6: blight is on our harvest in the ear, a blight
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  Speaker 6: upon the grazing flocks and herds, a blight on wives
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  Speaker 6: in traval and withal armed with his blazing torch, the
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  Speaker 6: god of plague hath swooped upon our city, emptying the
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  Speaker 6: house of Cadmus, and the murky realm of Pluto is
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  Speaker 6: full fed with groans and tears. Therefore, O King, here
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  Speaker 6: at thy hearth, we sit I and these children, not
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  Speaker 6: as deeming THEE a new divinity, but the first of men,
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  Speaker 6: first in the common accidents of life, and first in visitations.
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  Speaker 6: The gods art thou, Not he who come into the
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  Speaker 6: town of Cadmus freed us from the tax we pay
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  Speaker 6: to the fell songstress. Nor hast thou received prompting from us,
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  Speaker 6: or been by other schools, No by a god inspired.
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  Speaker 6: So all men deem and testify, didst thou in you
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  Speaker 6: our life? And now, O Edipus, our peerless king, all
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  Speaker 6: we thy votaries, beseech THEE find some succor, whether by
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  Speaker 6: a voice from heaven whispered or haply known by human
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  Speaker 6: wit tried counts, as methinks, our aptis found furnished for
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  Speaker 6: the future, pregnant reed a praise, O Chief of men,
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  Speaker 6: appraise our state. Look to thy laurels for thy zeal
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  Speaker 6: of your our country's savior. Thou art justly hailed. O.
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  Speaker 6: Never maymy thus record thy reign. He rais'd us up
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  Speaker 6: only to cast us down. Uplift us build our city
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  Speaker 6: on a rock. Thy happy star ascendant brought us luck. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: let it not decline. If thou wast rule this land
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  Speaker 6: as now, thou reign'st better sure to rule a people
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  Speaker 6: than a desert realm, nor battlements nor galleys, or to veil,
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  Speaker 6: if men to man and guards to guard them.
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  Speaker 5: Tail Ah, my poor children, known, ah, known too well,
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  Speaker 5: the quest that brings you hither, and your need Ye
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  Speaker 5: sick and all well, what I yet my pain, how
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  Speaker 5: great soever yours, out tops it. All Your sorrow touches
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  Speaker 5: each man, severally him and none other. But I grieve
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  Speaker 5: at once, both for the General and myself, and you.
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  Speaker 5: Therefore ye rouse no sluggard from day dreams. Many my
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  Speaker 5: children are the tears I've wept and threaded many a
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  Speaker 5: maze of weary thought. Thus pondering one clew of hope,
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  Speaker 5: I caught and track'd it up. I have sent Menoceus's
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  Speaker 5: son Creon, my consort's brother, to inquire of Pithian Phoebus
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  Speaker 5: at his Delphic shrine, how I might save the state
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  Speaker 5: by act or word? And now I reckon up the
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  Speaker 5: tale of days? Since he set forth and marvel how
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  Speaker 5: he fares tis strange, This endless tarrying passing strange. But
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  Speaker 5: when he comes, then were I base? Indeed, if I
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  Speaker 5: perform not all the God declares.
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  Speaker 6: By words are well timed. Even as thou speakest that
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  Speaker 6: shouting tells me Creon is at hand o King Apollo.
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  Speaker 5: May his joyous looks be pressage of the joyous news
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  Speaker 5: he brings.
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  Speaker 6: As I surmise tis welcome. Else his head has scarce
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  Speaker 6: been crowned at berry laden bays.
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  Speaker 5: We shall soon know he's now in earshot range.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Creon, my royal.
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  Speaker 5: Cousin, say Mena, says his child, What message hast thou
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  Speaker 5: brought us from the God?
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  Speaker 2: Good news for in intolerable ills, finding right issue tend
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  Speaker 2: to nought, but good.
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  Speaker 5: How runs the oracle? Thus far thy words give me
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  Speaker 5: no ground for confidence or fear.
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  Speaker 2: If thou would'st hear my message publicly, I'll tell thee straight,
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  Speaker 2: or with thee pass within.
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  Speaker 5: Speak before all. The burden that I bear is more
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  Speaker 5: for these my subjects than myself.
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  Speaker 2: Let me report than all. The God, declared King Phoebus,
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  Speaker 2: bids us straightly extirpate a fell pollution that infests the land,
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  Speaker 2: and no more harbor an inveterate.
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  Speaker 5: Soar what expiation means?
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  Speaker 2: He?
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  Speaker 5: What's amiss?
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  Speaker 2: Banishment? Or the shedding blood for blood? This stain of
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  Speaker 2: blood makes shipwreck of our state?
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  Speaker 5: Whom can he mean? The miscreant thus denounced.
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  Speaker 2: Before thou didst assume the helm of state. The sovereign
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  Speaker 2: of this land was Lais.
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  Speaker 5: I heard as much, but never saw the man he fell.
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  Speaker 2: And now the God's command is plain. Punish his takers
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  Speaker 2: off where they may be, Where are they?
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  Speaker 5: Where in the wide world? To find the far faint
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  Speaker 5: traces of a bygone crime.
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  Speaker 2: In this land? Said the God who seeks shall find.
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  Speaker 2: Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind?
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  Speaker 5: Was he within his palace or a field, or traveling?
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  Speaker 5: When Laus met his.
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  Speaker 2: Fate abroad, he started so, he told us, bound for Delphi,
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  Speaker 2: But he never thence returned.
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  Speaker 5: Came there no news, no fellow traveler to give some
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  Speaker 5: clue that might be followed.
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  Speaker 2: Up but one escape who, flying for dear life, could
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  Speaker 2: tell of all he saw but one thing sure?
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  Speaker 5: And what was that? One clue might lead us far
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  Speaker 5: with but a spark of hope to guide our quest.
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  Speaker 2: Robbers, he told us not one bandit, but a troop
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  Speaker 2: of knaves attacked and murdered him.
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  Speaker 5: Did any bandit dare so bold a stroke, unless indeed
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  Speaker 5: he were so born from Thebes?
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  Speaker 2: So twas surmised, But none was found to avenge his murder.
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  Speaker 2: Mid the trouble that ensued.
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  Speaker 5: What trouble can have hindered a full quest when royalty
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  Speaker 5: had fallen Thus miserably.
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  Speaker 2: The riddling Sphinx compelled us to let slide the dim
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  Speaker 2: past and attend to instant needs.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I will start afresh and once again make dark
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  Speaker 5: things clear right worthy the concern of Phoebus worthy thine
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  Speaker 5: too for the dead, I also as his meat, will
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  Speaker 5: lend by aid to avenge the wrong to Thebes and
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  Speaker 5: to the God. Not for some far off kinsman, but myself.
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  Speaker 5: Shall I expel this poison in the blood for whoso
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  Speaker 5: slew that king might have a mind to strike me
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  Speaker 5: too with his assassin hand. Therefore, in writing him, I
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  Speaker 5: serve myself up. Children, haste ye quit these altar stairs.
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  Speaker 5: Take hence your suppliant ones, go summon hither the theban commons.
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  Speaker 5: With God's good help. Success is sure tis ruined if
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  Speaker 5: we fail.
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  Speaker 1: Excient Oedipus and Creon.
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  Speaker 6: Come children, Let us hence these gracious words forestool the
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  Speaker 6: very purpose of our suit. And may the God who
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  Speaker 6: scent this oracle save us withal and rid us of
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  Speaker 6: this pest.
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  Speaker 1: Excient priest and suppliants.
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  Speaker 7: Sweet voice, daughter of Zeus, from my goal paved pithine
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  Speaker 7: shrime wafter to thebes, divine, What dost thou bring me?
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  Speaker 7: My soul is racked and shivers fear Healer of Delos. Here,
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  Speaker 7: hast thou some pain unknown before or with the circling years, renewest,
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  Speaker 7: penance of yore, offspring of golden hope, Thou voice immortal,
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  Speaker 7: O tell me first on Athene I call o Zeus,
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  Speaker 7: born goddess, Defend Goddess and sister befriend Artemis, Lady of thieves,
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  Speaker 7: high throned in the midst of our mart Lord of
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  Speaker 7: the death winged cart, Your threefold aid I crieve from
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  Speaker 7: death and ruin our city to save if in the
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  Speaker 7: days of old, when we nigh had perished. Ye drave
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  Speaker 7: from our land. The fiery plague be near us now.
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  Speaker 8: And defend us.
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  Speaker 7: Ah me, what countless woes are mine? All our host
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  Speaker 7: is in decline, weaponless. My spirit lies earth, her gracious
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  Speaker 7: fruits denies. Women wail, a barren throes life on life,
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  Speaker 7: death stricken goes swifter than the wind bird's flight, swifter
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  Speaker 7: than the fire god's might, to the western shores of
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  Speaker 7: night wasted. Thus by death on death, all our city perishes.
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  Speaker 7: Corpses spread, infection round. None to tend or morn is
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  Speaker 7: found wailing on the altar stair. Wives and grandams rend
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  Speaker 7: the air, long drawn moans and piercing cries, blent with
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  Speaker 7: prayers and litanys.
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  Speaker 8: Golden child of Zeus.
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  Speaker 7: Oh here, let fine angel face appear and grant that
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  Speaker 7: aries whose hot breath I feel, though without targ or
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  Speaker 7: steel he stalks whose voice is as the battle shout,
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  Speaker 7: may turn in sudden route to the unharbored Thracian water
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  Speaker 7: sped or amphitrite's bed. For what night mews undone smit
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  Speaker 7: by the morrow's sun. Perisheth Father Zeus, whose hand doth
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  Speaker 7: wield the lightning brand, slay him beneath thy leving bold
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  Speaker 7: we pray, slay him. Oh, slay oh that of thine arrows, too,
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  Speaker 7: Lucian King, from that taut bow's gold string might fly
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  Speaker 7: abroad the champions of our rights, yea, and the flashing
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  Speaker 7: lights of Artemis, wherewith the huntress sweeps across the licious.
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  Speaker 8: Steeps thee too.
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  Speaker 7: I call, with golden snooted hair, whose name our land
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  Speaker 7: doth bear, Bacchus to whom thy men needs Evo shout
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  Speaker 7: come with thy bright torch rout five, God whom we adore,
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  Speaker 7: the god whom God's abhorror enter.
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  Speaker 5: Oedipus, Ye pray tis well. But would ye hear my
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  Speaker 5: words and heed them, and apply the remedy, ye might
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  Speaker 5: perchance find comfort and relief. Mind you, I speak as
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  Speaker 5: one who comes a stranger to the report, no less
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  Speaker 5: than to the crime. For how unaided could I track
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  Speaker 5: it far without a clue, which, lacking for too late,
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  Speaker 5: was I enrolled a citizen of Thebes. This proclamation I
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  Speaker 5: address to all thebans. If any knows the man by
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  Speaker 5: whom Laius, son of Labdacus, was slain, I summon him
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  Speaker 5: to make clean shrift to me, And if he shrinks,
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  Speaker 5: let him reflect that, thus confessing, he shall scape the
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  Speaker 5: capital charge. For the worst penalty that shall befall him
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  Speaker 5: is banishment. Unscathed, he shall depart. But if an alien
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  Speaker 5: from a foreign land be known to any as the murderer,
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  Speaker 5: let him who knows speak out, and he shall have
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  Speaker 5: due recompense from me and thanks to boot. But if
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  Speaker 5: ye still keeps silence, if through fear for self or friend,
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  Speaker 5: ye disregard my hest hear what I then resul, I
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  Speaker 5: lay my ban on the assassin. Whosoe'er he be. Let
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  Speaker 5: no man in this land whereof I hold the sovereign rule, harbor,
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  Speaker 5: or speak to him, give him no part in prayer
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  Speaker 5: or sacrifice or lustral rights, but hound him from your homes.
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  Speaker 5: For this is our defilement. So the God hath lately
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  Speaker 5: shown to me by oracles. Thus, as their champion, I
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  Speaker 5: maintain the cause both of the God and the murdered king.
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  Speaker 5: And on the murderer this curse I lay on him
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  Speaker 5: and all the partners in his guilt. Wretch, may he
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  Speaker 5: pine in utter wretchedness. And for myself, if with my
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  Speaker 5: privity he gain admittance to my hearth, I pray the
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  Speaker 5: curse I laid on others fall on me. See that
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  Speaker 5: ye give effect to all my hest for my sake
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  Speaker 5: and the gods, and for our land, a desert blasted
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  Speaker 5: by the wrath of heav'n. For let alone the gods
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  Speaker 5: express command. It were a scandal, ye should leave unpurch'd
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  Speaker 5: the murder of a great man and your king, nor
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  Speaker 5: track it home. And now that I am lord, successor
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  Speaker 5: to his throne, his bed, his wife, and had he
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  Speaker 5: not been frustrate in the home of issue common children
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  Speaker 5: of one womb, had forced a closer bond TwixT him
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  Speaker 5: and me, but fate swoop down upon him. Therefore I
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  Speaker 5: his blood avenger, will maintain his cause as though he
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  Speaker 5: were my sire, and leave no stone unturn'd to attract
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  Speaker 5: the assassin or Avenge the son of lab Dachus, of Polydor,
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  Speaker 5: of Cadmus. And again no first of the race, and
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  Speaker 5: for the disobedient. Thus I pray, may the gods send
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  Speaker 5: them neither timely fruits of earth, nor teemy inquiries of
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  Speaker 5: the womb, But may they waste and pine as now
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  Speaker 5: they waste, ny and worse stricken. But to all of you,
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  Speaker 5: my loyal subjects who approve my acts, may justice our ally,
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  Speaker 5: and all the gods be gracious and attend you evermore.
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  Speaker 7: The oath thou profferest sire, I take and swear I
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  Speaker 7: slew him, not myself, Nor can I name the slair.
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  Speaker 8: For the quest.
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  Speaker 7: Twall, Well, he thinks that Phoebus, who proposed the riddle himself,
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  Speaker 7: should give the answer.
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  Speaker 8: Who the murderer was?
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  Speaker 5: Well argued, But no living man can hope to force
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  Speaker 5: the gods to speak against their will.
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  Speaker 8: May I then say what seems next best to me? I?
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  Speaker 5: If there be a third, best, tell it too.
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  Speaker 7: I wish if any man sees I to eye.
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  Speaker 9: With our lord.
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  Speaker 8: Phoebus tis our prophet, Lord.
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  Speaker 7: Tyrysius, he of all men, best my guide, a searcher
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  Speaker 7: of this matter to the light.
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  Speaker 5: Here too, my zeal has nothing left for Twice at
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  Speaker 5: Creon's instance have I sent to fetch him, And long
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  Speaker 5: I marvel why he is not here.
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  Speaker 7: I mind me too of rumors long ago, mere gossip.
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  Speaker 5: Tell them I would fain know all.
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  Speaker 7: Twas said he fell by travelers.
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  Speaker 5: So I heard, but none has seen the man who
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  Speaker 5: saw him fall.
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  Speaker 7: Well, if he knows what fear is he will quail
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  Speaker 7: and flee before the terror of.
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  Speaker 5: Thy curse words. Scare not him who blenches not at deeds, But.
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  Speaker 7: Here is one to arraign him no. At length they
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  Speaker 7: bring the God inspired seer, in whom above all other
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  Speaker 7: men is.
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  Speaker 1: Truth inborn enter Tyresius, led by a.
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  Speaker 5: Boy Tysius Seir, who comprehendeth all Lord of the wise
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  Speaker 5: and hidden mysteries, high things of heaven and low things
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  Speaker 5: of the earth. Thou knowest, though thy blinded eyes see nought,
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  Speaker 5: what plague infects our city. And we turn to Thee,
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  Speaker 5: O Syir, our one defense and shield, the purport of
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  Speaker 5: the answer that the God return'd to us, who saw
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  Speaker 5: his oracle. The messengers, how doubtless told thee how one
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  Speaker 5: course alone could rid us of the pest. To find
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  Speaker 5: the murderers, O lais, and slay them or expel them
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  Speaker 5: from the land. Therefore, begrudging neither augury nor other divination.
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  Speaker 5: That is, thine, O save thyself, thy country, and thy King,
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  Speaker 5: save all from this defilement of bloodshed on thee we rest.
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  Speaker 5: This is man's highest end to others, service all his
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  Speaker 5: powers to.
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  Speaker 10: The end alas alas what misery to be wise whom
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  Speaker 10: wisdom profits nothing. This old lord had forgotten else I
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  Speaker 10: were not here?
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  Speaker 5: What ails thee? Why this melancholy mood.
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  Speaker 10: Let me go home? Prevent me not to best that
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  Speaker 10: thou should spare thy burden, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Mine for shame? No true born theban patriot would thus
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  Speaker 5: withhold the word of prophecy.
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  Speaker 10: Thy words, O, King, are wide of the mark, and
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  Speaker 10: I for fear lest I chew trip like THEE.
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  Speaker 5: O speak withhold not I adjure thee? If thou know'st
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  Speaker 5: thy knowledge? We are all thy sappliants.
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  Speaker 10: Ay, for ye all are witless. My voice will ne'er
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  Speaker 10: reveal my miseries or thine?
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  Speaker 5: What then thou knowest? And yet wilst not speak, wouldst
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  Speaker 5: thou betray us and destroy the state.
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  Speaker 10: I will not vex myself nor thee. Why ask thus
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  Speaker 10: idly what from me thou shalt not learn?
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  Speaker 5: Monster? Thy silence would incense a flint? Will nothing loose
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  Speaker 5: thy tongue, can nothing melt thee or shake thy dogged taciturnity.
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  Speaker 10: Thou blamest my mood, and seest not thy known wherewith
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  Speaker 10: thou automated, No thou taxest me?
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  Speaker 5: And who could stay his cor when he heard how
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  Speaker 5: insolently thou dost flout the state.
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  Speaker 10: Well it will come, What will though I be mute?
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  Speaker 5: Since come it must? Thy beauty is to tell me.
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  Speaker 10: I have no more to say. Storm as thou willest,
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  Speaker 10: and give the rein to all thy pentopridge.
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  Speaker 5: Yea, I am wroth, and wilt not stint my words,
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  Speaker 5: but speak my whole mind. Thou methink'st Thou art he
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  Speaker 5: who planned the crime? I a performed it too, all
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  Speaker 5: save the assassination. And if thou hadst not been blind,
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  Speaker 5: I had been sworn to boot. That thou alone didst
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: do the bloody deed.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: Is so that I charge thee to abide by thine
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: own proclamation. Mis day, speak not to these or me,
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: Thou art the man, thou the accursed pollution of.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: This land, lyle slander. Thou blottest forth these taunts and
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: think'st forsooth s, and sere to go scot free.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: Yea, I am free the strength of truth?
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Who was thy teacher? Not methinks thy art.
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: Thou goading me against my will to speak what speech?
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Repeat it unresolve my doubt.
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: Dismiss my sense. Whilst thou goad me on.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Ay, but half called thy meaning say it again.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: I say, thou art the murder of the man whose
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: murder thou pursuest.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Thou shalt ruin it twice to repeat so gross a calumny.
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: Must they say more to aggravate thy rage.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Say all thou wilt, it will be but waste of breath.
• 21:35
  Speaker 10: I say, thou livest with thy nearest skin in infamy,
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: unwitting in my shame.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Thinkst thou, for I unscathed to wag thy tongue.
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: Yea if the mutitude cannot prevail.
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: With other men, but not with thee. While thou in
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: ear wit eye in everything art blind.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Poor, fool and utterer gibes at me, which I'll hear
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: Prasimal casts back on thee.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Ere long ape of endless knight. Thou hast no power
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: or me or any man who sees the sun.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: No, for thy weird is not to fall by me.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: I leave Chippollo. What concerns the God?
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Is this a plot of creon or thine own?
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Not creon? Thou myself art thine own bane.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: O wealth and empirey and skill by skill, outwitted in
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: the battle field of life? What spite an envy following
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: your train. See for this crown, the state conferred on
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: me a gift, a thing I thought not for this crown.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: The trusty Creon, my familiar friend, hath laid in wait
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: to oust me, and s born this mountebank, this juggling Charlatan,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: this tricksy beggar priest for gain alone keen eyed, but
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: in his proper art stone blind, say, Sarah, hast thou
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: ever prov'd thyself a prophet when the riddling sphinx was here?
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Why hadst thou no deliverance for this folk? And yet
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: the riddle was not to be solved by guess work,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: but requir'd the prophet's art, wherein thou wast found lacking
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: neither birds nor signed from Heaven helped thee. But I
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: came the simple Oedippus. I stopp'd her mouth by mother wit,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: and taught of Auguri's This is the man thou wouldst
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: under mine in hope to reign with Creon in my stead.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Methinks that thou and thine better soon wilt rule your
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: plot to drive the scapegoat out. Thank thy gray hairs
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: that thou hast still to learn what shastizement such arrogance
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: deserves to us.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: It seems that both Seer and now o Arapis have
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: spoken angry words. This is no time to wrangle, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: consult how best we may fulfill the oracle kings.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: Thou art free speechedth least is mine to make reply
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: in this I am thy peer. I own no lord,
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: but Loxius herm my serve, and ne'er can stand and
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: roll this creon's man. Thus than I answer, since thou
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: hast not spare to twit me with my blindness, thou
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: hast eyes yet seest not in what misery thou art fallen,
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: Nor where thou dwellest know with whom for mate dost
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: know thy lineage. Nay, thou knowest it not, and all
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: unwitting art of the double foe to thine own kin,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: to thine own kin, the living and the dead, ay,
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: and the dogging curse of mother and sire. One day
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: shall drive thee like a two edged sword beyond our
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: borders and the eyes, and now see clear shall henceforward
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: endless knight. Ah whither shall thy bitter cry not reach
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: what crag and all citheron, But shall then reverberate thy
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: wail when thou hast found with the criminal, Thou wast
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: born home, but to no fair haven on the gale
• 25:05
  Speaker 10: I and a flood of ills. Thou guessest not shall
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: set thyself and children in one line flout, then both
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: creon in my words, For none of mortals shall be
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: stricken worse than thou.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Must I endure this fellow's insolence. I'm a rain on thee.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Get the hens begone avaunt, and never cross my threshold.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: More I ne'er had come hats Thou not bidden me.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: I knew not thou wouldst that a folly. Else long
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: hadst thou waited to be summoned here?
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: Such am I, as it seems to THEE, a fool.
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: But the parents should beget thee wise.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: What sayest thou, parents who begat me speak?
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: This day shall be thy birthday and thy grave.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Thou lovest to speak in riddles and dark words.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: In reading riddles, Who so skilled as thou.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Twit me with that wherein my greatness lies?
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: And yet this very greatness proved thy bane.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: No matter if I saved the commonwealth.
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: Tis time I left thee.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Come boy, take me home yy take him quickly for
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: his presence irks, and lets me gone. Thou canst not
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: blame me more?
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: I go, but first will tell thee why I came
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: thy frown, I dread not, for thou canst not harm me.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: Hear them this man whom thou hast sought to arrest
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: with threats and warrants. This long while the wretch who
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: murdered elias that a man is here. He passes for
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: an alien in the land, but soon shall prove a
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: theban native born. And yet his fortune brings him little joy,
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: for blind of seeing, clad and beggar's weeds, for sprep
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: for purple robes, and leaning all his staff to a
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: strange land, he shall soon grope his way, and of
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: the children inmates of his home, he shall be proved
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: the brother and the sire of her, who bare himself
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: and husband, both co partner and assassin of a sire.
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: Go ahead and ponder this, and if thou find that
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: I have missed the mock henceforth declared that I have
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: no wit nor skill.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: And prophecy excent Tyresius and Oedipus, who is he.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: By voice immortal named from Pythia's rocky cell, doer of
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: foul deeds of bloodshed, horrors that no tongue can tell
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: a foot for flight.
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: He needs fleet than storm.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Swift steeds, for on his heels stuff follow armed with
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: the lightnings of his sire Apollo.
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: Like sleuth hounds, too, faiths pursue yea but now flashed
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: forth a summons from Parnassa's snowy peak near and far.
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: The undiscovered doer of this murder seeks seek now like
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: a sullen bull.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: He roves through forest.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: Breaks and upland groves, and bainly seeks to fly the doom.
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: That ever nie flits o'er his head still.
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: By the avenging men, Jeebus sped the voice divine from
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Earth's mid shrine rhyme sore perplexed a mind by the
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: words of the master seer.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Are they true?
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: True?
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Are they false?
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: I know not, and bridle my tongue for fear fluttered
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: with vague surmise, nor present your future is clear quall
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: of ancient date or in days still near, know I
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: none TwixT the Ladacian house and our ruler.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Pollybus sons proof is there nun No?
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: How then can I challenge our king's good name, How
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: in a blood few join for an untracked deed of shame?
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: All wise are seusan Apollo, and nothing is hid from
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: their ken.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: They are gods, and.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: In wits a man may surpass his fellow men.
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: But that immortal seer knows more than I know.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I know where.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: Or how without sign shirt can I blame him? You
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: saved our state from the winged songstress, came tested and tried,
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: and the light of us all like go the saved.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: How can I now.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Say when a crime is on.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Friends, countryman, I learned King Oedipus hath laid against me
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a most grievous charge, and come to you protesting if
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: he deems that I have harmed or injured him in
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: aught by word or deed, in this our present trouble.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I care not to prolong the span of life thus
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: ill reputed, for the calumny hits not a single blot,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: but blast my name if by the general voice I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: am denounced false to the state and false by you,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: my friends.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: This taunt was boarded out in petulance, not spoken advice.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Advisedly, did any dare pretend that it was I prompted
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: the seer to utter a forge charge.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: Such things were said said with one intent I know not.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I know not, were not his wits and vision all astray?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: When upon me he fixed this monstrous charge, I.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Know not to my sovereignts act I am blind.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: But no he comes to answer for himself himself.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Enter Oedipus Sarah, What makes thou hear?
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Dost thou presume to approach my doors? Thou brazen face
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: rogue my murderer, and the filter of my crown come answer?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: This?
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Didst thou detect in me some touch of cowardice or
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: witlessness that made THEE undertake this enterprise? I seem, forsooth
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: too simple to perceive the serpent stealing on me in
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: the dark, or else too weak to scotch it. When
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I saw this, Thou art witless, seeking to possess without
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: a following or friends, the crown, a prize that followers
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: and wealth.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Must when attend me, thou hast spoken, tis my turn
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: to make reply. Then, having heard me judge.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Thou art a glib of tongue. But I am slow
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: to learn of THEE. I know too well thy venomous hate.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: First I would argue out this very point.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, argue not that thou art not a rogue.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: If thou dost count of virtue, stubbornness, unschooled by reason,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: thou art much astray.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: If thou dost hold a kinsman, may be wronged, and
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: no pains follow Thou art much to.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Seek therein thou judgest rightly, But this wrong that thou
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: lejest Tell me what it is?
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Didst thou? Or didst thou not advise that I should
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: call the priest?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Yes? And I stand to it?
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Tell me how long is it since Laus?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Since lais I follow not thy drift.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: By violent hands was spirited away.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: In the dim past many years?
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Agone did the same profit then pursue his craft.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, skilled as now an in no less repute.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Did he at that time? Ever glance at me?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge, not when I was by?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: But was no search an inquisition made?
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Surely, full quest was made, but nothing learnt.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: Why failed the seer to tell his story?
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: Then?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I know not, and not knowing hold my tongue.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: This much thou knowest and canst surely tell.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: What meanst thou? All I know I will declare, but.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: For thy prompting. Never had the seer ascribed to me
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: the death o Laus.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: If so he thou knowest best. But I would put
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: THEE to the question in my turn.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: Question and prove me murderer.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: If thou canst, then let me ask THEE. Didst thou
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: wed my sister?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Per fact? So plain I cannot well deny.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And as thy consort queen, she shares the throne.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: I grant her freely all her heart desires.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: And with you, twain, I share the triple rule.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Yea. And it is that proves the false friend.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Not so if thou wouldst reason with thyself as I
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: with myself. First I bid THEE. Think would any mortal
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: choose a troubled reign of terrors rather than secure repose
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: if the same power were given him? As for me,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I have no natural craving for the name of king,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: preferring to do kingly deeds, And so thinks every sober
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: minded man. Now all my needs are satisfied through THEE,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and I have naught to fear. But were I king,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: my axe would oft run counter to my will? How
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: could a title then have charms for me above the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: sweets of boundless influence. I am not so infatuate as
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: to grasp the shadow. When I hold a substance fast. Now,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: all men cry me God's speed, wish me well, and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: every suitor seeks to gain my ear. If he would
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: hope to win a grace from thee, why should I
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: leave the better choose the worse? That were sheer madness?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: And I am not mad. No such ambition ever tempted me,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: nor would I have share in such intrigue. And if
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: thou doubt me, first to Delphi, go there, ascertain if
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: my report was true of the God's answer. Next, investigate
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: if with the Seer I plotted or conspired, and if
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: it proved so, sentence me to death. Not by thy
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: voice alone, but mine and thine. But O condemn me,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: not without appeal on bare suspicion. Tis not right to
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: adjudge bad men at random, good or good men bad.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I would as lief a man should cast away the
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: thing he counts most precious, his own life, as spurn
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: a true friend. Thou wilt learn in time the truth,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: for time alone reveals the just. A villain is detected
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: in a day twe.
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: You walk in warily, warily.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: His words commend themselvesselves swift.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Counsel when with swift strides. The stealthy plotter stalks. I
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: must be quick too with my counterplot. To wait his
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: onset passively for him is sure success for me. I
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: showed defeat.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: What then'st thy will to banish me the land?
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: I would not have thee banished, No but dead, that
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: men may mark the wagers, envy reaps.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I see thou wilt not yield nor credit me.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: None but a fool would credit such as thou.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Thou art not wise.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Wise for myself at least, Why not for me too?
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Why for such a knave.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Suppose thou lackest sense?
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Yet kings must rule.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Not if they rule ill?
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, my, thebans hear.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Him, Thy, thebans am not I a theban too?
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: There comes.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: Your palace, palace, who so fed his peacemaker to reconcile
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: yourself entered Jacasta.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Misguided princes, why have ye appraised this worthy wrangle? Are
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: you not ashamed? While the whole landlight's striken? Thus to
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: voide her private injuries, go in, my lord, go home,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: my brother, and forbear to make a public scandal of
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a petty grief.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: My royal sister. Oedipus, thy lord hath bid me choose
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: o dread alternative and outlaws, exile, or a felon's death.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, lady, I have caught him practicing against my royal
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: person his violets.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: May I ne'er speed, but die accursed. If I in
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: any way am guilty of this.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Charge, believe him. I adjure thee Oedipus, first for his
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: solemn oath's sake, then for mine and for thine elder's sake.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Who wait on thee.
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: Hearken king reflaked, We pray THEE.
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: Pray thee, but not stubborn.
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: But relent.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Say to what should I consent?
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Respect a man his property and truth are known to
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: art and now confirmed by oath.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Dost know what grace thou cravest?
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Declare it then, and make thy meaning plain.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: Brand not a friend who babbling tongs to sail. Do
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: not suspicion against his oath prevail?
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Bethink you that in seeking this ye seek in very
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: sooth my death or banishment.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: No, by the leader of the host divine witness thou son,
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: such thought was never mine, and blessed and friended me.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: I perish, ever, I such wish to cherish.
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: But oh, my heart is.
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: Desolate, musing on her stricken state, doubly falling should discord
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: broach twist you twain to crown.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: Er woe well, let him go, no matter what it
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: cost me, or certain death or shameful banishment. For your sake,
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: I relent, not his, and him where he be. My
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: heart shall still abhole.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Our artists, sullen in thy yielding mood as in thine anger.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Thou wast truculent. Such tempers justly plague themselves the most.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Leave me in peace and get thee gone.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I go by thee misjudged but justified by these excient creon.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: Lady lead enjoys, thy consort.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: We're far longer here, delayed.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Delay, Tell me first, how rose the fray?
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: Rumors bred and just suspicious? And injustice wrinkles sore?
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: We're both at fault, both both. What was the tale?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Ask me no more?
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: The land is sore, distressed, distressed, twere better sleeping? Ill
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: is to leave and rest.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: Strange counsel, friend, I know thou meanst me well, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: yet woulds mitigate and blunt my zeal king.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: I say it once again, a witless where I proved insane?
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: If I likely put away me country's prop and stay
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: pilot st to quiet haven, brought our distracted state state,
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: And now who can guide us right? Good?
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Thou now let me too. I adjure THEE know, o King,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: what cause has stirred this unrelenting wrath.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I will for.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Thou art more to me than these lady. The cause
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: is Creon and his plots.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: But what provoked the quarrel makes this clear?
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: He points me out as Laus is murderer.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Of his own knowledge, or upon report he.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Is too cunning to commit himself and make some mouthbeasts
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: of a knavish seer.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Then thou mayst ease thy conscience on that score. Listen,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: and I'll convince THEE that no man hath goot a
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  Speaker 3: lot in the prophetic art. Here is the proof. In
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: brief an oracle once came to Lias. I will not
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: say it was from the Delphic god himself, but from
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: his ministers, declaring he was doomed to perish by the
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: hand of his own son, a child that should be
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: borne to him by me. Now LIUs, so at least
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: report affirmed was murdered on a day by highwaymen no natives,
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  Speaker 3: at a spot where three roads meet. As for the child,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: it was but three days old when LIUs its ankles
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  Speaker 3: pierced and pinned together, gave it to be cast away
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  Speaker 3: by others on the trackless mountain side. So then Apollo
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  Speaker 3: brought it not to pass the child should be his
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  Speaker 3: father's murderer, or the dread terror fine accomplishment, and LIUs
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  Speaker 3: be slain by his own son. Such was the prophet's horoscope.
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  Speaker 3: O King regarded, not what ere the god deems fit
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: to search himself? An native will reveal what memories?
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  Speaker 5: What wild tumult of the soul came on me, lady,
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: as I heard THEE speak.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: What meanst thou? What hast shocked and startled thee?
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Methought? I heard THEE say that Laius was murdered at
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: the meeting of three roads?
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  Speaker 3: So render story that is current?
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Still, where did this happen? Dost thou know the place?
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  Speaker 3: Foss's The land is called the spot is where brench
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: roads from Delphi and from Dallas meet.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: And how long is it since these things befell?
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Twas but a brief while where thou wast proclaimed our
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: country's ruler that the news was brought.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Oh Zeus, what hast thou wilt to do with me?
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: What is it Oedipus that moves thee?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: So ask me not yet tell me the build and
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: height of Laus? Was he still in manhood's prime?
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Tall was he? And his hair was slightly strewn with silver?
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: And not unlike thee in form Oh, woe is me?
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Methinks unwittingly I laid, but now a dread curse upon myself.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: What sayst thou when I look upon thee, my king,
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: I tremble.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Tis a dread presentiment that in the end the seer
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: will prove not black. And one further question to resolve
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: my doubt.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I quail, but ask, and I will answer. All.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Had he but few attendants or a train of armed
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: retainers with him like a prince, They were.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: But five in all, and one of them a herald
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: liars in a mulkar road.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: Alas tis clear as noonday now. But say lady who
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: carried this report to thebes a.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Serf, the sole survivor who returned.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Haply he has at hand or in the house.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: No, For as soon as he returned and found THEE
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: reigning in the stead of liars lane, he clasped my
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: hand and supplicated me to send him to the alps
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: and pastures, where he might be farthest from the side
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: of thebes. And so I sent him, twas an honest
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: slave and well deserved some better recompense.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Fetch him at once, I fain would see the man.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: He shall be brought, But wherefore summon him.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Lady, I fear my tongue has overrun discretion. Therefore I
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: would question him.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Well, he shall come, but may not. I too claim
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: to share the burden of thy heart, my king.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: And thou shalt not be frustrate of thy wish. Now
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: my imaginings have gone so far. Who has a higher
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: claim than thou to hear my tale of dire adventures? Listen? Then,
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: My sire was Polybus of Corinth, and my mother Merepi,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: a Dorian, And I was held the foremost citizen till
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: a strange thing befell me, strange, indeed, yet scarce, deserving
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: all the heat. It stirred a roisterer at some banquet,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: flown with wine, shouted, thou art not true, son of
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: thy sire. It irt'd me, but I stomach'd for the
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: nonce the insult. On the morrow I sought out my
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: mother and my sire and questioned them. They were indignant
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: at the random slur cast on my pair parranage, and
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: did their best to comfort me. But still the venomed
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: barb wrankled. For still the scandal spread and grew so privily.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: Without their leave, I went to Delphi, and Apollo sent
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: me back bolt of the knowledge that I came to seek.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: But other grievous things he prophesied, woes, lamentations, mourning portents,
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: dire to wit, I should defile my mother's bed and
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: raise up seed too loathsome to behold, and slay the
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: father from whose loins I sprang. Then, lady, thou shalt
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: hear the very truth. As I drew near the triple
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: branching roads, a herald met me and a man who
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: sat in a car drawn by colts as in thy tail.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: The man in front and the old man himself, threatened
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: to thrust me rudely from the path. Then, jostled by
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: the charioteer in wrath, I struck him an The old man,
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: seeing this, watch'd till I pass'd, and from his car
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: brought down full on my head the double pointed gold.
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: Yet was I quits with him and more, one stroke
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: of my good staff sufficed to fling him clean out
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: of the chariot's seat, and laid him prone. And so
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: I slew them every one. But if betwixt this stranger
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: there was aught in common with Laeus, who more miserable
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: than I. What mortal could you find more god abhorred
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: wretch whom no sojourner, no citizen may harbor or address,
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: whom all are bound to harry from their homes. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: this same curse was laid on me, and laid by
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: non button me. Yea, with these hands all gory I
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: pollute the bed of him I slew, say, am I vile?
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: Have I not utterly unclean? A wretch doom'd to be
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: banish'd an in banishment for the sight of all my
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: dearest ones, and never tread again my native earth, or
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: else to wed my mother and slay my sap o libyus,
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: who begat me and upreared. If one should say this
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: is the handiwork of some inhuman power who could blame
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: his judgment, but ye, pure and awful Gods forbid forbid
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: that I should see that day, may I be blotted
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: out from living men? Ere such a plague spot set
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: on me its brand.
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  Speaker 7: We two O king are trouble troubled, But till thou
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: hast questions, survivors still still hope on on.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: My hope is faint, but still enough survives to bid
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: me bide the coming of this herd.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Suppose him here? What wouldst thou learn of him?
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: I'll tell thee lady. If his tale agrees with thine,
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: I shall have escaped calamity.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: And what of special import did I say in.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: Thy report of what the herdsman said? Laus was slain
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: by robbers? Now if he still speaks of robbers, not
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: a robber I slew him, not one with many cannot square.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: But if he says one lonely wayfarer, the last link
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: wanting to my guilt is forged.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: Well rest assured he still ran thus at first? Nor
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: can he now retract what then he said? Not I alone,
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: but all are townsfolk heard it in'n should he vary
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: somewhat in his story? He cannot make the death of
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Lias in any wise jump with the oracle. Phloxius said
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: expressly he was doomed to die by my child's hand.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: But he poor babe, he shed no blood, but perished
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: first himself so much for divination. Henceforth I will look
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: for signs neither to right nor left.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: Thou reasonest well. Still, I would have thee send and
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: fetch the bonds when hither see you.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Do it that realies straightway, come let us within. I
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: would do nothing that my Lord mislikes.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Excient Oedipus and Jocasta, and of part one Part two
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  Speaker 1: of Oedipus. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Oedipus the King by Sophocles,
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  Speaker 1: translation by f.
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  Speaker 9: Stor.
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  Speaker 7: My lot be still to lead the life of innocence,
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: and fly a reverence in word or deed deed. To
• 48:50
  Speaker 7: follow still those laws ordained on high high, whose birthplace
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: is the bright ethereal sky, no mortal birthday, Olympus, their
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: progenitor of the turn. Ne'er shall they slumber in oblivion cold.
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: The God in them is strong and grows not hold
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: of insolence is bred the tyrant insolence, full blown with
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: empty riches, surfeited scales, the precipitous height and grasps the
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: throne and Topple's door, and lies in ruin, prone.
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  Speaker 8: No foothold on that dizzy steep steep.
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  Speaker 7: But oh may Heaven the true patriot keep, who burns
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: with emulous zeal to serve the state. God is my
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: help and hope on him. I wait, But the proud
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: sinner or in word or deed, that will not justice
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: heat it nor reverence. The shrine of images, divine perdition
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: sees his vain imaginings. If urged by greed profane, he
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: grasps at ill got gain and lays impious hand on
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: holiest things, who, when such deeds are done, can hope
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: Heaven's bolts to shun. If sin like this to honor
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: can aspire, why dance I still to keep the sacred
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: choir choir.
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  Speaker 4: No more?
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: I'll seek Earth's central oracle where abbes hollowed self. Nor
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: to Olympia bring my votive offering. If before all God's
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: truth be not bade plain, Oh zeus, reveal thy mind, King,
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: If thou art named a right omnipotent all seeing as
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: of old, for Lias is forgot, He's weird, many heed
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: it not Apollo is forsook, and faith grows cold.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: Old.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: Enter Jacasta, my lords, you look amazed to see your
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: queen with breaths and gifts of incense in her hands.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: I had a mind to visit the high shrines, for
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Oedipus is overwrought, alarmed with terrors manyfold, who will not
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: use his past experience like a man of sense to
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: judge the present needs, but lends an ear to any
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: croaker if he augurs ill. Since then my counsels not avail.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I turn to THEE our present help in time of trouble, Apollo,
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Lord Lycian, and to THEE my prayers and supplications. Here
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I bring lighten us Lord, and cleanse us from this curse.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: For now we all are cowdlike mariners who see their
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: helmsmen dumbstruck in the storm.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Enter Corinthian messenger, My masters, tell me where the palace
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: is of Oedipus, Or better, where's the king?
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Here is the palace he bides within. This is his queens.
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: He's the mother of his children's children.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: All happiness attend her, and the house blessed is her
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: husband and her marriage bed.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: My greetings to thee stranger, thy fair words deserve alike response.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: But tell me why thou comest what thy need or
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: what thy.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: News good for thy consort and the royal house?
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: What may it be whose messenger art thou?
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: The Isthmian commons have resolved to make thy husband king,
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: so twas reported there?
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: What is not h Polybus still king?
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: No verily he's dead? And in his grave?
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: What is he dead? The sire of Oedipus?
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: If I speak falsely, may I die myself?
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Quick maiden, bear these titans to my lord. Ye gods
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: and oracles will stand you.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: This is the man whom Oedipus long shunned in dread
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: to prove his murder, and now he dies in nature's course,
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: not by his hand.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Enter Oedipus, my.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: Wife, my queen, Jocasta. Why hast thou summoned me from my.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Palace hear this man? And as thou hearest judge, what
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: has become of all those awe inspiring oracles?
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: Who is this man? And what is news for me?
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: He comes from Corinth, and his message this thy father Polybus,
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: hath passed away.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: What let me have it stranger from my mouth?
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: If I must first make plain beyond a doubt my message.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Know that Polybus is dead.
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: By treachery or by sickness visited.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: One touch will send an old man to his rest.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: So of some malady he died, poor man, Yes, having
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: measured the full span of years out on him.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: Kady, why should one regard the pithian hearth or birds
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: that scream me?
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: There?
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: Did they not point at me as doomed to slay
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: my father? But he's dead and in his grave. And
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: here am I who ne'er unsheathed a sword, unless the
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: longing for his absent son killed him, and so I
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: slew him in a sense. But as they stand, the
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: oracles are dead, dust ashes, nothing dead, as Polybius.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: Say, did not I foretell this long ago?
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: Thou didst? But I was misled by my fear.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Then let I no more upon thy soul.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: Must I not fear my mother's marriage bed?
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Why should a mortal man the sport of chance with
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: no one should for knowledge be afraid best live a
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: careless life from hen to mouth? This wedlock with thy mother?
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Fear not thou? How oft chances that in dreams a
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: man has wed his mother. He who least regards such
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: brainsick fantasies lives most at ease.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: I should have shared in full like confidence, were not
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: my mother living, Since she lives, Though half convinced, I
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: still must live in dread.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: And yet thy sire's death lights out darkness much much.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: But my fear is touching her who lives?
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: Who may this woman be? Whom thus you.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: Fear, merope, stranger wife of Bolivias?
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: And what of her can cause you any fear?
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: A heavens and oracle of dread?
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: Import a mystery?
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: Or may a stranger hear it?
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: Aye? Tis no secret? Locksius once foretold that I should
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: mate with mine own mother and shed with my own
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: hands the blood of my own sire. Hence Corinth was
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: for many a year to me the home distant, and
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: I trove abroad but missed the sweetest sight my parent's face.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: Was this the fear that exiled THEE from home.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: Yea, and the dread of slaying my own sire.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: Why since I came to give THEE pleasure King, have
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: I not rid thee of this second fear?
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: Well? Thou shalt have duke wheron for thy pains.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I confess what chiefly made me come was hoped
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: to profit by thy coming home.
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: Nay, I will ne'er go near my parents more, my son?
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Tis plain? Thou knowest not what thou doest, how.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: So, old man, for Heaven's sake, tell me all.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: If this is why thou dreadest to return.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: Yea lest God's word be fulfilled in.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: Me, Lest through thy parents thou shouldst be a cursed This.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: And none other is my constant dread.
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: Dost thou not know? Thy fears are baseless, all.
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: How baseless? If I am their very son?
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Since Polybus was not to THEE in blood.
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: What sayest thou was not Polybus my sire.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: As much thy sire as I am, and no.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: More my sire, no more to me than one who
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: is naught.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Since I beget THEE? Not no more did he?
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: What reason had he then to call me son?
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Know that he took THEE from my hands a gift.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: Yet if no child of his, he loved me well.
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: A childless man, till then he warmed.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: To THEE a foundling or a purchased slave.
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: This child I found THEE in Scythian's woulded glens.
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: What led THEE to explore these apland glades?
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: My business was to tend the mountain flocks, a.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: Vagrant shepherd journeying for hire.
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: True, but thy savior in that hour, my son.
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: My savior, from what harm? What ailed me? Then?
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: Those ankle joints are evidence?
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Ennow ah, why remind me of that ancient soul?
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: I loose the pin that riveted thy feet?
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, from my cradle that dread brand I bore.
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: Whence thou derivest the name that still is thine?
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: Who did it? I jure THEE? Tell tell me who? Say?
• 57:28
  Speaker 12: Was it?
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: Father? Mother?
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: I know not the man from whom I had? THEE
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: may know more?
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: What did another find me? Not thyself? Not I?
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Another shepherd gave THEE me who was he?
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: Wouldst thou know again the man he passed?
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Indeed for one of Lessa's house, the king who ruled
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: the country long ago? The same he was a herdsman
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: of the king.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: And is he living still for me to see him?
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: His fellow countryman should best know that.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: Doth any stander among you know the herd he speaks of,
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: or by seeing him afield or in the city, answer
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: straight they ah hath come to clear this business up.
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: He thinks he means none other than a hind Thou
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: anon wert fain to see.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: But that are Queen Jocasta best.
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: Of all to tell, Madam, dost know the man we
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: sent to fetch? Is it the same of whom the
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: stranger speaks?
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: Who is the man? What matter? Let it be to
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: a waste of thought to waste such idle words.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: No, with such guiding clues, I cannot fail to bring
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: to light the secret of my birth.
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Oh as thou carest for thy life, give or disquest
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: enough the anguish I endure be of good cheer.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: Though I be proved the son of a bondswoman, Aye,
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: through three dissent s, triply a slave, Thy honor is unsmirched.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Yet humor me I praedy.
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: Do not this I cannot. I must probe the matter.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Home tis for thy sake. I advise thee for the best.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: I grow impatient of this best advice.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Ah, mayst thou ne'er discover who thou art, Go.
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: Fetch me here the herd, and leave yon woman to
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: glory in her pride of ancestry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh woe is thee, poor wretch. With that last word,
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: I leave thee henceforth silent evermore, except Jocasta.
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: Why and it must. Why stome with passionate grief?
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: Have Queen thus departed herded? Much I fear from this
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: dead calm will burst a storm of woes.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: Let the storm burst. My fixed resolve still holds to
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: learn my lineage. Be it ne'er so low. It may be, she,
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: with all a woman's pride, thinks scorn of my base parentage.
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: But I, who rank myself as Fortune's favorite child, the
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: giver of good gifts, shall not be shamed. She is
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: my mother, and the changing moons my brethren. With them
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: I wax and wane, thus brung. Why should I fear
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: to trace my birth? Nothing could make me other than
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: I am?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: If my soul propetic are not, if my wisdom ought
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: availed the seconds, I shall hail as the nurse and
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: foster mother of our Oedipus shall greet air tomorrow's full
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: moon rises and exalt thee as is made, dance and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: song shall him my praises, lover of our royal race, Phoebus,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: May my words find grace, child who bear thee him
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 7: for gooddess Sure thy share was more than man man.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: Happily the hell roamer pan of did Loxi spaghetti for
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: he haunts the upland hold of Simon's lord, or Bacchus
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: dwell around the hilltop's cold cold did Simwystonians laureate give
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: him thee newborn joy nymphs with which.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 5: He loved toy toy wilders. If I, who never yet
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 5: before have met the man, may make a guess, methinks
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: I see the herdsman whom we long have sought. His
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: time worn aspect matches with the years of yonder aged messenger. Besides,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: I seem to recognize the men who bring him as
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: servants of my own. But you, perchance, having in past
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: days known nor seen the herd, may better by your
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: knowledge my surmise.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: I recognize him no Lie's high house, a simple hind.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: Enter, herdsman, Corinthians stranger. I address thee first, Is this
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: the man? Thou meanest?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 10: This is he?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: And now old man look up and answer all? I
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: ask THEE wast thou wants of Leis's house?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 12: I was a thrall, not purchased, but home breid.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: What was thy business? How wast thou employed the.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 12: Best part of my life? I'd tended sheep?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: What were the pastures thou didst most frequend.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 12: Kithyron and the neighboring Alps.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: Then there thou must have known yon Man at least
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: by fame yon Man.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 12: In what way? What man dost thou mean.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 5: The man here? Having met him in past times?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 12: Off hand, I cannot call him well to.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: Mind, no wonder master, but I will revive his blunted memories.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Sure he can recall what time together both we drove
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: our flocks, he too. I won on the Scythian range
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: for three long summers. I his mate from spring till
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: rose Arcturus. Then in winter time I led mine home,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: he his to lay us folds. Did these things happened
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: as I say?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 9: Or?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 12: No, tis long ago? But all thou sayst is true?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Well, thou must then remember giving me a child to
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: rear as my own foster son.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: Why dost thou ask this question?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: What of that friend he that stands before thee?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 12: Was that child a plague upon me?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Hold thy wanton tongue, softly, old man, rebuke him. Not,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: thy words are more deserving chastisement than.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 12: His, Oh, best of masters? What is my offense?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: Not answering what he asks about the child?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 12: He speaks at random babbles like a fool.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: If thou lack'st grace to speak, I'll loose thy tongue.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 12: For mercy's sake, abuse not an old man.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: Arrest the villain, seize opinion him.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 12: Ali like a lac. What have I done? What wouldst
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 12: thou further learn?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: Didst thou give this man the child of whom he asks?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 12: I did, and would that I had died that.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: Day and die. Thou shalt unless thou tell the truth.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 12: But if I tell it, I am doubly lost.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: The knave methinks will still provaricate.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 12: Nay, I confessed, I gave it long ago.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: Men's game. It was it dying or given to thee.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 12: I had from another? Twas not mine?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: From whom of these are armsmen? And what house for pair?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 12: For God's sake, Master, ask no more?
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: If I must question thee again that lost?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 12: Well, then it was a child of Lias house.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: Slave born, or one of Leus's own race.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 12: Ah Me, I stand upon the perilous edge of speech.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: And I of hearing, But I still must hear.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 13: Then the child was by repute his own, But she
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 13: within thy consort best could tell.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 5: What she She gave it thee tis so my king,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: with what intent to make away with it? What she
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: it's mother?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 12: Fearing a dread weird?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: What weird?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 12: Twas told that he should slay his sire.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: What didst thou give it then to this old man
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: through pity?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 13: Master, for the babe, I thought he'd take it to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 13: the country whence he came, But he preserved it for
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 13: the worst of woes. For if thou art in sooth,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: what this man sayth God, pity thee, thou wast a
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: misery born, Oh me.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 14: Oh me, all brought to pass, all true, oh light,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 14: May I behold thee?
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: Nevermore?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 15: I stand a wretch in birth, in wedlock, curst a parricide, incestuously,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 15: triply cursed exit op.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: Racis an immortal man whose life is but a span.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: I count you that the shadow of a shape, for
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: he who lost doth know of uss hath but the
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: show a moment and the vision's pale, and thy fall,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 7: thy piteous fall, warns me none born of woman. For
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: he of Mars than best or. Zeus outshot the rest
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 7: and won the prize supreme of wealth and power. By him,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: the vulture Maid was quelled. The witchery laid, he rose
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 7: our savior and the land's strong tower. We hailed the king,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 7: and from that day adored of mighty Thebes, the universal Lord,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 7: oh heavy, and of fate.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 8: Who now more desolate?
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 7: Whose tale more sad than mine?
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 8: Whose lot more dire dire? O Oedipus.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: This crowned head, thy cradle, was thy marriage bed, one harbored,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: sufficed for son and sire? How could the soil thy
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: father eared so long, endure to bear in silence.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 8: Such a wrong?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: Wrong all seem time hath caught guilt, and to justice
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: brought the sun and sire commingles in one bed, Oh child,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: will start race what I had never held by face,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: I raise for thee a dirge as or the dead dead.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, sooth to say through.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: THEE I drew new breath, and now through THEE I
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: feel a second death.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Death, Enter second messenger.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 16: Most grave and reverend, Senators of Thebes, What deeds you
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 16: soon must hear? What sights behold? How will you mourn?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 16: If true born patriots? Ye, reverend, still the race of
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 16: Labdacus nor ister oral faces is blood? I ween good,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 16: wash away the bloodstains from this house feels at shruds
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 16: or soon will bring the light ills wrought of malice,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 16: not unwittingly the worst start to bear our self inflicted wounds.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 7: Grievous enough for all our tears and tones are past
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 7: the families.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 8: What can'st thou add?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 9: My tale is quickly told and quickly heard. Our sovereign lady,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: Queen jo Cast is dead.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 8: Alas poor, How clear is she by her dead, her.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 9: Death by her own hand, and all the horror of it,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 9: not having seen yet cannot comprehend nath less. As far
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: as my poor memory serves, I will relate the unhappy
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 9: lady's woe. When in her frenzy she had passed inside
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 9: the vestibule, she hurried straight to win the bridal chamber,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 9: clutching at her hair with both her hands, and once
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: within the room she shut the doors behind her with
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 9: a crash layes. She cried and called her husband dead,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 9: long long ago. Her thought was of that child by
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: him begot the son by whom the sire was murdered,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 9: and the mother left to breed with her own seed,
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 9: a monstrous progeny. Then she bewailed the marriage bed, whereon
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: poor wretch she had conceived a double brood husband by
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 9: husband children by her child. What happened after that I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 9: cannot tell, nor how the end befell, For with a
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 9: shriek burst on us Oedipus. All eyes were fixed on
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 9: Oedipus as up and down he strode, Nor could we
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 9: mark her agony to the end, For stalking to and
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: fro a sword, he cried, where is the wife? No wife,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 9: the teeming womb that bore double harvest me and mine,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 9: And in his frenzy some supernal power nor mortal, surely
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 9: none of us who watched him guided his footsteps with
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 9: a terrible shriek, as though one beckoned him. He crashed
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 9: against the folding doors, and from their staples forced the
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 9: wrenched bolts, and.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: Hurled himself within.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 9: Then we beheld the woman hanging there a running noose
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 9: entwined about her neck. But when he saw her with
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 9: a maddened drawer, he loosed the cord. And when her
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 9: wretched corpse lay stretched on earth, what followed? Oh twas dread.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 9: He tore the golden brooches that upheld her queeny robes,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 9: appraised them high, and smote full on his eyeballs, uttering
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 9: worlds like this, no more shall ye behold the sights
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: of woe, deeds I have suffered from myself have wrought henceforward,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 9: quenched in darkness, Shall ye see those he should ne'er
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 9: have seen, now, blind to those whom, when I saw,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: I vainly yearned to know. Such was the burden of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: his moan. Whereto not once but oft He struck with
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 9: his hand uplift his eyes, and at each stroke the
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: ensanguined orbs bedewed his beard, not oozing drop by drop,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 9: but one black, gory downpour, thick as hail. Such evils
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 9: issuing from the double source, have whelmed them, both, confounding
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 9: man and wife. Till now the storied fortune of this
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 9: house was fortunate, indeed, But from this day woe, lamentation, ruin, death, disgrace,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 9: all ills that can be named, all all are theirs.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: But had ye still no respite from his pain?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 9: Pein he cries, unbar the doors, and let all thebes
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 9: behold the slayer of his sire, his mother's that shameful
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 9: word my lips may not repeat. He vows to fly
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: self banished from the land, nor stay to bring upon
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 9: his house to curse himself had uttered. But he has
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 9: no strength nor one to guide him and his tortures
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: more than man can suffer, as yourselves will see. Follow
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 9: the palace portals are in bard, and soon ye shall
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 9: behold a sight so sad that he who must abhorred
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 9: would pity it.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Enter Oedipus, blinded.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: Woeful sight more wolf of none, his sad eyes have looked.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: Whence this madness? None can tell? To cast on me
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 7: his spell, prowling all my life around, weeping with the
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: demon ban hapless wretch?
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 8: How can I brook on the misery.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: To work though, to gaze on thee I much to question,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 7: much to learn, horror, strike away, turn.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: Ah me, her woe is me? Whither am I born?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: How like a ghost? Forlorn?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 17: My voice flits from me on the air, on on
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 17: the demon goads the end, where an.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: End to dread, to tell, to tell, too dark to see.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 14: Dark dark, The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 14: me and bears me on through mist and cloud. Ah Me,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 14: ah me, what spasms athwart me shoot? What pangs of
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 14: agonizing memory?
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 8: No marmal if in such a plight?
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 7: The double way to the past.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 17: Ah friend, still, loyal, constant, still and kind, Thou cast
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 17: for the blind.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: I know thee near, and they bereft of eyes. My
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: voice I recognize, Oh, dreaded?
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 8: How couldst thou thy vision? What demon God be?
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: Apollo? Friend Apollo? He it was that brought these ills
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: to pass? But the right hand that dealt the blow
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: was mine? None other? How how could I longer see?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: Whence sight brought no delight? Alas say, friends, can edy
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: look or voice or touch of love? Henceforth my heart rejoice,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: Haste friends, no fond delay, take the twice, curse it
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: away far from all ken the man.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 15: I'm bored of God's cursed of.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: Men, thy desperate.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 8: Case, But I have never looked upon my.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: Face my curse on him whoe'er unrived, The waves fell fetters,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: and my life revived. He meant me well, Yet had
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: he left me there, he had saved my friends and
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: me a world of care. I too, then, had I
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: never come to shed my father's blood, nor climb'd my
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: mother's bed, The monstrous offspring of a womb defiled co
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: mate of him who gendered me and child was ever
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 5: man before afflicted? Thus, like heed of us, I.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 7: Cannot say thou hast counseled well for thou better dead
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 7: than having blind blind.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: What's done was well done. Thou canst never shake my
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: firm belief a truce to argument. For had I sight,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: I know not with what eyes I could have met
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: my father in the shades, or my poor mother, Since
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: against the twain I sinned a sin no gallows could
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: atone aye, But ye say, the sight of children, Joy's
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 5: apparent's eyes, what born as mine were born. No such
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: sight could never bring me joy. Nor this fair city,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 5: with its battlements, its temples, and the statues of its gods,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: sights from which I now wretchedest of all, once ranked
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: the foremost, theban in all thebes. By my own sentence,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: am cut off, condemn'd by my own proclamation, gainst the wretch,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: the miscreant, by Heaven itself declared unclean, and of the
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: race of laeis thus branded as a felon by myself.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 5: How had I dared to look you in the face?
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: They had I known a way to choke the springs
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 5: of hearing, I had never shrunk to make a dungeon
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 5: of this miserable frame, cut off from sight and hearing.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: For tis bliss abide in regions sorrow cannot reach. Why
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 5: didst thou harbor me seite therein? Why didst thou not
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 5: take and slay me?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 12: Then?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 5: I never had sh own to men the secret of
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 5: my birth O polybiaso corinth O, my home, home of
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 5: my ancestors. So wast thou call'd how fair and nursling.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 5: Then I seem'd how foul The canker that lay festering
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 5: in the bud. Now is the blight reveal'd of root
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 5: and fruit. Ye triple high roads, and thou hidden glen
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 5: coppies and pass where meet the three branched ways, Ye
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 5: drank my blood, the life blood these hands spilt my father's.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 5: Do ye call to mind perchance those deeds of mine
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: ye witness'd, and the work I wrought Thereafter, when I
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: came to thebes o fatal wedlock, thou didst give me birth,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 5: and having borne me, sowed against my seed, mingling the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 5: blood of fathers, brothers, children, brides, wives and mothers, and
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: incessan just brood all horrors that are wrought beneath the sun,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: horrors so foul to name them where unmeet? Oh, I
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: enjure you hide me anywhere far from this land, or
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 5: slay me straight, or cast me down to the depths
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: of oceans out of sight. Come hither deign to touch
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 5: an abject wretch, Draw near and fear not. I myself
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: must bear the load of guilt that none but I
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: can share.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Enter Creon Lo here is Creon the one man to
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: grant thy prayer by action or advice. For he has
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: left the state's sole guardian in thy stead.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 5: Ah me what words to accost him? Can I find?
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 5: What cause has he to trust me? In the past
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 5: I have been prov'd his rancorous enemy.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Not in derision, Oedipus, I come nor to upbraid thee
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: with thy past misdeeds two bystanders. But shame upon you
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: if ye feel no sense of human decencies. At least
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: revere the sun, whose light beholds and nurtures all. Leave
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: not thus nakedly for all to gaze at a horror.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Neither earth, nor rain from heav'n nor light will suffer
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: lead him straight within. For it is seemly that a
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: kinsman's woes be heard by kin and seen by kin alone.
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  Speaker 5: Oh listen, since thy presence comes to me a shock
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  Speaker 5: of glad surprise, So noble dow and I so vile, O,
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  Speaker 5: grant me one small boon. I ask it, not on
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  Speaker 5: my behalf, but thine.
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  Speaker 2: And what the favor thou would'st crave of me.
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  Speaker 5: Forth from thy borders. Thrust me with all speed, set
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  Speaker 5: me within some vasty desert, where no mortal voice shall
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  Speaker 5: greet me any more.
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  Speaker 2: This had I done already, But I deem'd it first
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  Speaker 2: behoove me to consult the God.
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  Speaker 5: His will will set forth fully to destroy the parricide,
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  Speaker 5: the scoundrel. And I am he.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, so he spake. But in our present plight, twere
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  Speaker 2: better to consult the God. Ane.
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  Speaker 5: Dare ye inquire concerning such a wretch?
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  Speaker 2: YEA, for thy self wouldst credit now his word?
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  Speaker 5: Aye, And on thee in all humility I lay this charge.
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  Speaker 5: Let her who lies within receive such burial as thou
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  Speaker 5: shalt ordain. Such rights tis thine as brother to perform.
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  Speaker 5: But for myself, O, never let my thebes, the city
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  Speaker 5: of my sires, be doom'd to bear the burden of
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  Speaker 5: my presence while I live. No let me be a
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  Speaker 5: dweller on the hills on yonder mount sith heeron fam'd
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  Speaker 5: as mine my tomb predestined for me by my sire
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  Speaker 5: and mother, while they liv'd that I might die slain
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  Speaker 5: as they sought to slay me. When alive, this much
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  Speaker 5: I know full surely, nor disease shall end my days,
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  Speaker 5: nor any common chance, For I had ne'er been snatch'd
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  Speaker 5: from death, unless I was predestined to some awful doom.
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  Speaker 5: So be it I reck not how fate deals with me,
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  Speaker 5: but my unhappy children. For my sons, be not concerned,
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  Speaker 5: O Creon. They are men, and for themselves where'er they be,
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  Speaker 5: can fend. But for my daughters twain, poor innocent maids,
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  Speaker 5: who ever sat beside me at the board, sharing my veans,
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  Speaker 5: drinking of my cup for them, I pray THEE care,
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  Speaker 5: And if thou wilst oh, might I feel their touch
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  Speaker 5: and make my moan hear me, O Prince, my noble
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  Speaker 5: hearted prince. Could I but blindly touch them with my hands,
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  Speaker 5: I'd think they were still mine?
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  Speaker 1: As when I saw Antigony and his many are led in?
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  Speaker 5: What say I? Can it be my pretty ones whose
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  Speaker 5: sobs I hear? Has Creon pitied me and sent me
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  Speaker 5: by two darlings? Can this be tis true?
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  Speaker 2: Twas I have procured THEE, this delight, knowing the joy
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  Speaker 2: they were to thee of all.
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  Speaker 5: God speed THEE. And as mead for bringing them, may
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  Speaker 5: Providence deal with THEE kindlier than it has dealt with me. O,
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  Speaker 5: children mine, where are ye? Let me clasp you with
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  Speaker 5: these hands, a brother's hands, a father's hands that made
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  Speaker 5: lack luster sockets of his once bright eyes, hands of
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  Speaker 5: a man who blindly, recklessly became your sire by her
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  Speaker 5: from whom he sprang. Though I cannot behold you, I
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  Speaker 5: must weep in, thinking of the evil days to come,
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  Speaker 5: the slights and wrongs that men will put upon you.
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  Speaker 5: Where'er ye go to feast or festival, No merry making
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  Speaker 5: will it prove for you, But oft abashed in tears
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  Speaker 5: ye will return. And when ye come to marriageable years,
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  Speaker 5: where's the bold woos? Who will jeopardize to take unto himself?
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  Speaker 5: Such disrepute as to my children's children still must cling
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  Speaker 5: for what of infamy is lacking here? Their father slew,
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  Speaker 5: His father sow'd the seed where he himself was gender'd,
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  Speaker 5: and begat these maidens at the source whereof he sprung.
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  Speaker 5: Such are the gibes that men will cast at you,
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  Speaker 5: Who then will wed you none, I ween, but ye
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  Speaker 5: must pine poor maids in single barrenness. O, Prince Menocesia's
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  Speaker 5: son to THEE. I turn with thee. It rests to
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  Speaker 5: father them, for we their natural parents, both of us
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  Speaker 5: are lost. Oh leave them not to wander poor unwed
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  Speaker 5: thy kin, Nor let them share my low estate. Oh
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  Speaker 5: pity them so young, and but for thee all destitute
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  Speaker 5: thy hand upon it. Prince, to you, my children, I
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  Speaker 5: had much to say, were ye but right to hear?
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  Speaker 5: Let this suffice. Pray ye may find some home and
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  Speaker 5: live content, And may your lot prove happier than your sires.
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  Speaker 2: Thou hast had enough of weeping. Pass within.
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  Speaker 5: I must obey, dou tis grievous.
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  Speaker 2: Weep not everything must have its day.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I go, but on condition.
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  Speaker 2: What thy terms for going? Say?
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  Speaker 5: Send me from the land an exile.
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  Speaker 2: Ask this of the gods, not me, But I am
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  Speaker 2: the God's abhorrence. Then they soon will grant thy plea
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  Speaker 2: lead me.
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  Speaker 5: Hence then I am willing come.
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  Speaker 2: But let thy children go rob me.
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  Speaker 5: Not of these My children.
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  Speaker 2: Crave not mastery in all, For the mastery that raised
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  Speaker 2: THEE was thy bane and wrought thy fall.
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  Speaker 8: Look Look.
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  Speaker 7: This is Oedipus, the Great, he who knew the sphinx
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  Speaker 7: is riddle, and was mightiest in our stage, who of
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  Speaker 7: all our townsmen gazed not on his fame with envious eyes.
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  Speaker 7: Now in what a sea of trouble, Sunk and overwhelmed
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  Speaker 7: he lies. Therefore, wait to see life's ending. Ere thou
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  Speaker 7: count one mortal bless Wait, wait till free from pain
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  Speaker 7: and sorrow he has gained his final
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  Speaker 1: Bless end of Part two d of Oedipus by Sophocles