4 (return)
[ The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text
have been lost.]
5 (return)
[ To avoid the blessing, still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace;
literally, “For what generous man is not (in befriending others) a
friend to himself?”]
6 (return)
[ Creon desires to bury Oedipus on the confines of Thebes so as to
avoid the pollution and yet offer due rites at his tomb. Ismene tells
him of the latest oracle and interprets to him its purport, that some
day the Theban invaders of Athens will be routed in a battle near the
grave of Oedipus.]
7 (return)
[ The Thebans sprung from the Dragon’s teeth sown by Cadmus.]