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ἄνδρες , τὰ μὲν δὴ πόλεος ἀσφαλῶς θεοὶ πολλῷ σάλῳ σείσαντες ὤρθωσαν πάλιν . ὑμᾶς δ᾽ ἐγὼ πομποῖσιν ἐκ πάντων δίχα ἔστειλ᾽ ἱκέσθαι τοῦτο μὲν τὰ Λαΐου σέβοντας εἰδὼς εὖ θρόνων ἀεὶ κράτη , τοῦτ᾽ αὖθις , ἡνίκ᾽ Οἰδίπους ὤρθου πόλιν , κἀπεὶ διώλετ᾽ , ἀμφὶ τοὺς κείνων ἔτι παῖδας μένοντας ἐμπέδοις φρονήμασιν . ὅτ᾽ οὖν ἐκεῖνοι πρὸς διπλῆς μοίρας μίαν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν ὤλοντο παίσαντές τε καὶ πληγέντες αὐτόχειρι σὺν μιάσματι , ἐγὼ κράτη δὴ πάντα καὶ θρόνους ἔχω γένους κατ᾽ ἀγχιστεῖα τῶν ὀλωλότων . ἀμήχανον δὲ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς ἐκμαθεῖν ψυχήν τε καὶ φρόνημα καὶ γνώμην , πρὶν ἂν ἀρχαῖς τε καὶ νόμοισιν ἐντριβὴς φανῇ .
My
fellow
citizens
!
First
,
the
gods
,
after
tossing
the
fate
of
our
city
on
wild
waves
,
have
once
more
righted
it
.
Second
,
I
have
ordered
you
through
my
messengers
to
come
here
[
165
]
apart
from
all
the
rest
,
because
I
knew
,
first
of
all
,
how
constant
was
your
reverence
for
the
power
of
the
throne
of
Laius
;
how
,
again
,
you
were
reverent
,
when
Oedipus
was
guiding
our
city
;
and
lastly
,
how
,
when
he
was
dead
,
you
still
maintained
loyal
thoughts
towards
his
children
.
[
170
]
Since
,
then
,
these
latter
have
fallen
in
one
day
by
a
twofold
doom—each
striking
,
each
struck
,
both
with
the
stain
of
a
brother
'
s
murder—I
now
possess
all
the
power
and
the
throne
according
to
my
kinship
with
the
dead
.
[
175
]
Now
,
it
is
impossible
to
know
fully
any
man
'
s
character
,
will
,
or
judgment
,
until
he
has
been
proved
by
the
test
of
rule
and
law-giving
.