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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) |
| ἐγὼ δ’, ὦ ἄνδρες, πατάξας καταβάλλω αὐτόν, καὶ τὼ χεῖρε περιαγαγὼν εἰς τοὔπισθεν καὶ δήσας ἠρώτων διὰ τί ὑβρίζει εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τὴν ἐμὴν εἰσιών. |
| I gave him a blow, sirs, which knocked him down, and pulling round his two hands behind his back, and tying them, I asked him why he had the insolence to enter my house. |
| Lysias Speeches 1.26 (546) |
| ἐρομένου δέ μου τί αἱ θύραι νύκτωρ ψοφοῖεν, ἔφασκε τὸν λύχνον ἀποσβεσθῆναι τὸν παρὰ τῷ παιδίῳ, εἶτα ἐκ τῶν γειτόνων ἐνάψασθαι. |
| I asked why the doors made a noise in the night; she told me that the child’s lamp had gone out, and she had lit it again at our neighbor’s. |
| Lysias Speeches 1 14 (567) |
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