![]() ![]() Hear, sweet daughters of primeval Darkness! Hear, you that are called the city of great Athena, Athens, given most tīmē of all cities! Pity this poor phantom of the man Oedipus! 110 For in truth it is the former living body no more. Then, goddesses, according to the word of Apollo, give me at last some way to accomplish and close my course-unless, perhaps, I seem too lowly, 105 enslaved as I am evermore to woes the sorest on the earth. ![]() ![]() Now I perceive that in this journey some trusty omen from you has surely led me to this grove never otherwise could I have met with you, first of all, in my wanderings-I, in my sobriety, with you who touch no wine, 100 -or taken this august seat not shaped by men. And he went on to warn me that signs of these things would come, 95 in earthquake, or in thunder, or in the lightning of Zeus. Ladies of dread aspect, since your seat is 85 the first in this land at which I have bent my knee, show yourselves not ungracious to Phoebus or to myself who, when he proclaimed that doom of many woes, spoke to me of this rest after long years: on reaching my goal in a land where I should find a seat of the awe-inspiring Goddesses 90 and a shelter for xenoi, there I should profitably close my weary life, through my having fixed my abode there, for those who received me, but ruin for those who sent me forth, who drove me away. ![]()
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