OEDIPUS.
Yes, daughter, if it be inhabited.
ANTIGONE.
Sure there are habitations; but no need
To leave thee; yonder is a man hard by.
OEDIPUS.
What, moving hitherward and on his way?
ANTIGONE.
Say rather, here already. Ask him straight
The needful questions, for the man is here.
[Enter STRANGER]
OEDIPUS.
O stranger, as I learn from her whose eyes
Must serve both her and me, that thou art here
Sent by some happy chance to serve our doubts—
STRANGER.
First quit that seat, then question me at large:
The spot thou treadest on is holy ground.
OEDIPUS.
What is the site, to what god dedicate?
STRANGER.
Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide.
OEDIPUS.
Tell me the awful name I should invoke?
STRANGER.
The Gracious Ones, All-seeing, so our folk
Call them, but elsewhere other names are rife.