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There he met an old man riding in a chariot, and preceded by a herald, who haughtily bade OEdipus make way for his master. As OEdipus had been brought up as a prince, he was in the habit of seeing everybody make way for him. He therefore proudly refused to stir; and when the herald raised his staff to strike, OEdipus drew his sword and killed him.
Sulla celebrated the festival for the victory in Thebes at the fountain of Oedipus, where he erected a stage.
Though thousand ways lead to his thousand doors Which day and night are still unbarr'd for all." NAT. LEE. Oedipus. "No man" I am quoting my father "can be great, or even wise, or even, properly speaking, a man at all, until he has burnt his boats"; but I imagine that those who achieve wisdom and greatness burn their boats deliberately and not as did I, next moment upon a sudden wild impulse.
After a song from the chorus, in which are imbodied the doubt, the trouble, the terror which the audience may begin to feel and here it may be observed, that with Sophocles the chorus always carries on, not the physical, but the moral, progress of the drama Creon enters, informed of the suspicion against himself which Oedipus had expressed.
This news inspires another song in which the joy of deliverance gradually yields to pity for an unhappy house, cursed and blighted, the glory of Oedipus serving but to make more acute the shame of his latter end and the triumph of the ruin he invoked on his sons.
At first the poets recounted any legend that came in their way. Now, the best tragedies are founded on the story of a few houses, on the fortunes of Alcmaeon, Oedipus, Orestes, Meleager, Thyestes, Telephus, and those others who have done or suffered something terrible. A tragedy, then, to be perfect according to the rules of art should be of this construction.
"This story of yours, friend Edie, is an absolute enigma, and would require a second OEdipus to solve it who OEdipus was, I will tell you some other time if you remind me However, whether it be owing to the wisdom or to the maggots with which you compliment me, I am strongly disposed to believe that you have spoken the truth, the rather that you have not made any of those obtestations of the superior powers, which I observe you and your comrades always make use of when you mean to deceive folks."
The King on his appearance echoes her words after hearing the tidings-only to sink back again into gloomy despondency. What of Merope, is she also dead? The messenger assures him that his anxiety about her is groundless, for there is no relationship between them. Little by little he tells Oedipus his true history.
'Educated at Westminster school, he said, rather affectedly, 'I should prefer to see the quotations given in the original language; and he was rash enough to instance the print from the death of OEdipus, as a case in point. The unfortunate part of this was, that, on the plate in question, the passage was really engraved in Greek characters under the mezzotint.
And the people, as soon as ever they heard the name of OEDIPUS, knew as well as the Poet, that he had killed his father by a mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the Play; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of LAIUS: so that they sate, with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come, with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred or two of verses, in a tragic tone, in complaint of his misfortunes.
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