All 7 Uses of
prophecy
in
Oedipus King of Thebes (translated by: Murray)
- Question every cry Of birds, and all roads else of prophecy Thou knowest.†
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- O wealth and majesty, O conquering skill That carved life's rebel pathways to my will, What is your heart but bitterness, if now For this poor crown Thebes bound upon my brow, A gift, a thing I sought not—for this crown Creon the stern and true, Creon mine own Comrade, comes creeping in the dark to ban And slay me; sending first this magic-man And schemer, this false beggar-priest, whose eye Is bright for gold and blind for prophecy?†
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- Speak thy prophecies.†
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- Didst urge me, or didst urge me not, to seek A counsel from that man of prophecies?†
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- —Behold the fruits of prophecy!†
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- And if change he should, O Lord of men, No change of his can make the prophecy Of Laius' death fall true.†
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- And I will no more turn mine eyes This way nor that for all their prophecies.†
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Definition:
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(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)