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Thursday, January 10, 2019

Oedipus Translation

Destiny template me always Destiny find me modify with reverence pure in raillery and deed. Great laws tower above us, reared on high born for the brilliant hurdle of heaven Olympian Sky their plainly father, nothing mortal, no composition gave them birth, 960 their remembrance deathless, never lost in repose within them lives a mighty deity, the god does not grow old. Pride breeds the despot . violent felicitate, gorging, crammed to bursting ith any that is overripe and teeming with ruin 965 clawing up to the heights, headlong pride crashes down the abysssheer destine No footing helps, all footing lost and gone. But the healthy strife that makes the city strong I request that god will never revoke that wrestling 970 god, my champion, I will never let you go. But if any man comes striding, high and mighty in all he says and does, no fear of justice, no reverence or the temples of the gods 975 let a rough doom tear him down, fix his pride, breakneck, ruinous pride If he cannot thread his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from debase mad, laying hands on the devoted things untouchable 980 Can such a man, so desperate, still boast he can save his life from the instant bolts of god? If all such force-out goes with honor nowadays why colligation the sacred dance?Never once more will I go reverent to Delphi, 985 the inviolate heart of Earth or Apollos ancient oracle at Abae or Olympia of the fires unless these prophecies all come received for all mankind to point toward in wonder. 990 King of kings, if you deserve your titles Zeus, remember, never occlude You and your deathless, everlasting reign. They are dying, the old oracles direct to Laius, now our masters strike them transfer the rolls. 995 Nowhere Apollos golden glory now the gods, the gods go down.

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