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πρόσθεν τε, answered by νῦν τε in 772. The interval is somewhat long, but the first τε merely prepares the ear for a statement in two parts.

οἰκείοις, due to my own acts: it was horror at his own involuntary crimes that made him eager to quit Thebes: cp.

“καὶ τάδ᾽ οὔτις ἄλλος ἦν
ἢ 'γὼ 'π᾽ ἐμαυτῷ τάσδ᾽ ἀρὰς ὁ προστιθείς

”

. So Ai. 260 “οἰκεῖα πάθη, ι μηδενὸς ἄλλου παραπράξαντος”: El. 215 “οἰκείας εἰς ἄτας ι ἐμπίπτεις”.


Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.

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