Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus (English) (XML Header) [genre: poetry; drama; tragedy] [word count] [lemma count] [Soph. OC]. | ||
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Cease your lament, children! Where the favor of the nether night is stored up, there is no room for sorrow; divine retribution would follow.
AntigoneSon of Aegeus, we supplicate you!
Theseus
We want look with our own eyes upon our father's tomb.
TheseusIt is not right to go there.
AntigoneWhat do you mean, lord, ruler of
If this is his intention, we must be content with it.
1770Send us to ancientI will do both this and whatever other favorable service I can, for you
1775and for the newly-departed under the earth, according to the gratitude I owe. I am bound to spare no pains. ChorusCease; raise up the lamentation no further. These things are established firm and fixed.
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