ŒD. O ye inhabitants of my illustrious country, behold, I, this Œdipus, who alone stayed the violence of the bloodthirsty Sphinx, now, dishonored, forsaken, miserable, am banished from the land. Yet why do I bewail these things, and lament in vain? For the necessity of fate proceeding from the Gods a mortal must endure.
CRE. [O greatly glorious Victory, mayest thou uphold my life, and cease not from crowning me!] (See note [H].)
NOTES ON THE PHŒNICIAN VIRGINS
[1] That is, through the signs of the zodiac: αστηρ differs from αστρον, the former signifying a single star, the latter many.
[2] The preposition συν is omitted, as in Homer,
Αυτηι κεν γαιηι ερυσαιμι.
The same omission occurs in the Bacchæ, αυτηισιν ελαταις, and again in the Hippolytus. It is an Atticism.
[3] See note on Hecuba, 478.