Τοῦ 'πιόντος
of the one who comes upon
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Feb 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] of the one who chanced. Sophocles [writes]: "and indeed the riddle was not that of the one who comes upon [it] to explain, but it needed prophecy, which you evidently did not have, known either from birds or from one of the gods; but I Oedipus, the one who knows1 nothing, stopped her2 having obtained [the answer] by intelligence, not having learned [it] from birds3."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τοῦ 'πιόντος· τοῦ τυχόντος. Σοφοκλῆς· καίτοι τό γ' αἴνιγμ' οὐχὶ τοῦ 'πιόντος ἦν ἀνδρὸς διειπεῖν, ἀλλὰ μαντείας ἔδει, ἣν οὔτ' ἀπ' οἰωνῶν σὺ προὐφάνης ἔχων οὔτ' ἐκ θεῶν του γνωτόν· ἀλλ' ἐγὼ μολὼν ὁ μηδὲν οὐδεὶς Οἰδίπους, ἔπαυσά νιν γνώμῃ κυρήσας, οὐδ' ἀπ' οἰωνῶν μαθών.
Betacode
*tou= 'pio/ntos: tou= tuxo/ntos. *sofoklh=s: kai/toi to/ g' ai)/nigm' ou)xi\ tou= 'pio/ntos h)=n a)ndro\s dieipei=n, a)lla\ mantei/as e)/dei, h(\n ou)/t' a)p' oi)wnw=n su\ prou)fa/nhs e)/xwn ou)/t' e)k qew=n tou gnwto/n: a)ll' e)gw\ molw\n o( mhde\n ou)dei\s *oi)di/pous, e)/pausa/ nin gnw/mh| kurh/sas, ou)d' a)p' oi)wnw=n maqw/n.
Notes (3)
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 393-398, with scholion to 393. Oedipus addresses Teiresias: see web address 1.
- 1Reading
ei)dw\s "knowing" instead of the Suda'sou)dei\s "no one." ↩ - 2The Sphinx (sigma 1746, omicroniota 34). ↩
- 3For bird-prophecy cf. generally omicroniota 160, omicroniota 161, omicroniota 162, omicroniota 163. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Sep 2022
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- my typo — David Whitehead
- keywords — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth