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Excerpt from The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles: With a Commentary Abridged From the Large Edition
But his two daughters were nobly loyal. Antigone went forth from Thebes with her blind father, - his sole attendant, and thenceforth shared the privations of his lot, which could now be only that of a wandering mendicant. Ismene stayed at Thebes, but it was in order to watch the course of events there in her father's interest. We hear of one occasion, at least, on which she risked a secret journey for the purpose of acquainting him with certain oracles which had just been received. The incident marks the uneasy feeling with which the Thebans still regarded the blind exile, and their unwilling ness that he should share such light on his own destiny as they could obtain from Apollo.
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