 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 528 str.
...already known to all the audience: and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Œdipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by 1 8o 181 a mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the play; that they were now to hear... | |
 | John Dryden - 1921 - 332 str.
...Aristotle called TO /ra^os, and often TWV TTpay/iarcov crvvQeo-is, and from him the Romans Fabida;^ it has already been judiciously observed by a late...plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius: so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 str.
...already known to all the audience: and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of CEdipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by i8o 181 a mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the play; that they were now to hear... | |
 | Frank Laurence Lucas - 1923 - 220 str.
...audience must generally have known the story of the play. As Dry den says, "the people, as soon as they heard the name of (Edipus, knew as well as the...plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius: so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pulled out, and speak a hundred... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 120 str.
...people so soon as ever they heard the Name of Oedipus, knew as well as the Poet, that he had kill'd his Father by a mistake, and committed Incest with...hear of a great Plague, an Oracle, and the Ghost of Latus ; so that they sate with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pull'd... | |
 | Allan H. Gilbert - 1967 - 724 str.
...already known to all the audience; and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet that he had killed his father...plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius; so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation till he was to come with his eyes pulled out and speak a hundred... | |
 | John Dryden - 1985 - 672 str.
...people so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the Poet, that he had kill'd his Father by a mistake, and committed Incest with...of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pull'd out, and speak a hundred or more Verses in a Tragick tone, in complaint of his misfortunes.... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 str.
...already known to all the audience: and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father...play: that they were now to hear of a great plague, and oracle, and the ghost of Laius: so that they sat with a yawning kind of expectation, till he was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1956 - 682 str.
...people so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the Poet, that he had kill'd his Father by a mistake, and committed Incest with...of expectation, till he was to come with his eyes pull'd out, and speak a hundred or more Verses in a Tragick tone, in complaint of his misfortunes.... | |
 | Michael Dunne - 2001 - 236 str.
...already known to all the audience: and the people, so soon as ever they heard the name of Oedipus, knew as well as the poet, that he had killed his father by mistake, and committed incest with his mother, before the play. . . . (Bate 136) Eugenius's arch description... | |
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Oedipus, knew as well as the poet that he had killed his father by a mistake and committed incest with his mother before the play; that they were now to hear of a great plague, an oracle, and the ghost of Laius... 
