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| στῆσόν με κἀξίδρυσον, ὡς πυθώμεθα ὅπου ποτ’ ἐσμέν· μανθάνειν γὰρ ἥκομεν ξένοι πρὸς ἀστῶν, ἃν δ’ ἀκούσωμεν τελεῖν. |
| Stand me there and let me rest, so that we can find out where we are. We have come as foreigners to learn from the citizens, and to do what we are told. |
| Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 11-13 (110) |
| “καὶ οἶμαι,” ἔφη, “ἐμὴν ταύτην πατρίδα εἶναι· καὶ εἰ μή τι κωλύει, ἐθέλω αὐτοῖς διαλεχθῆναι.” “ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν κωλύει,” ἔφη, “ἀλλὰ διαλέγου καὶ μάθε πρῶτον τίνες εἰσίν.” |
| He said, "I think that this is my homeland. And if there's nothing stopping me, I want to go and talk to them." "No, nothing's stopping you," he said, "so go and talk with them and find out first of all who they are." |
| Xenophon Anabasis 4.8 (241) |
| ἠρώτων ἐκεῖνοι εἰ δοῖεν ἂν τούτων τὰ πιστά. οἱ δ’ ἔφασαν καὶ δοῦναι καὶ λαβεῖν ἐθέλειν. |
| They asked if they would give oaths on this. They answered that they wanted to both give and take them. |
| Xenophon Anabasis 4.8 (243) |
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