Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The King Oedipus and Philoctetes of Sophocles: Translated Into English Verse
From fierce engulfing by a murderous sea. Earth's buds are wasted, and the grazing herds Pine, and our women have not strength to bear, While fiery Pestilence, detested power.
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