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Gladdening in his grave my friend. CHORUS Wail no more, let sorrow rest, All is ordered for the best. FOOTNOTES --------- 1. The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost. 2. To avoid the blessing, still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace; literally, "For what generous man is not (in befriending others) a friend to himself?" 3. CREON desires to bury OEDIPUS on the confines of Thebes so as to avoid the pollution and yet offer due rites at his tomb. Ismene tells him of the latest oracle and interprets to him its purport, that some day the Theban invaders of Athens will be routed in a battle near the grave of OEDIPUS. 4. The Thebans sprung from the Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus. *End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Sophocles' OEDIPUS at Colonus.* ****This is the Project Gutenberg Etext Sophocles' Antigone.**** This file should be named antig10.txt or antig10.zip if separate. *It should include the header from the top including small print* SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and |
