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Oedipus at Colonus (700-726)

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It greatly flourishes in this land—the gray-leafed olive, nurturer of children. Youth cannot harm it by the ravages of his hand, nor can any who lives with old age. For the sleepless eye
of Zeus Morios watches over it, and gray-eyed Athena.
707
Chorus
And I have more praise for this city our mother,
the gift of a great divinity, a glory most great: the might of horses, the might of colts, and the might of the sea.
For you, son of Cronus, lord Poseidon, have set her on the throne of this pride,
by establishing first in our roads the bit that cures the rage of horses. And the shapely oar, well-fitted for the sea, in flying past the land leaps to follow the hundred-footed Nereids.
720
Antigone
Land that is praised above all lands, now it is your task to make those bright praises seen in deeds!
Oedipus
What strange new thing has happened, my daughter?
Antigone
Creon there draws near us, and not without followers, father.
Oedipus
Ah, dearest old men, now give me
the final proof of my salvation!
Chorus
Courage! It will be yours. For even if I am aged, this country’s strength has not grown old.

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