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The tragedies of Sophocles, tr. into Engl. verse. By T. Dale
The tragedies of Sophocles tr into Engl verse By T Dale Author:Sophocles Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The shafts that ever strike the foe, These in thy people's succour wing; Thou, Dian, lift thy beams of light On us, as on Lycaeum's height; Thee too, with gol... more »den mitre crowned, Whose name exalts thy Thebes renowned ; Thee, Bacchus, flushed with wine's deep hue, Whose path th'infuriate Nymphs pursue ; On thee I call; be thy red torches driven To crush this fatal Pest,thisPower abhorred in heaven. Re-enter (EmPus. CEDIPUS. CHORUS. (Ed. I hear thy prayers, nor are they breathed in vain— If thou wilt heed my counsels, and observe Whate'er the crisis claims, thou mayst achieve A remedy or respite from thy ills. I, as a stranger to the tale, will speak ; A stranger to the deed. I cannot hope To search it far with not a track to guide me; Yet, last enrolled among the sons of Thebes, This is my charge to all her citizens : Whoe'er is conscious of the murderous hand That shed the blood of Laius, I ordain He do forthwith reveal to me the whole : And lest, by fear withheld, he shrink to own His latent guilt, no heavier doom awaits him, Than to retire uninjured into exile; Or if one know th' assassin, and he draw His breath from foreign soil, still let him speak,— With gifts and added thanks will we requite him. If yet ye all are silent, and there be One, for his own life or his friend's appalled, Who still shall slight our mandate, hear ye next The solemn edict we will then proclaim. This man, whoe'er he be, let none that owns Our sceptre and our sway presume to grant The shelter of a home ; let none accost him ; Let none associate with him in the vows And victims of the Gods, or sprinkle o'er him The lustral stream;lo let all, from every roof, 10 Xipift. This word does not, as Potter has translated it, imply the ...« less