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Enter Ismene from the house, led in by two attendants.

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Look, here comes Ismene from the palace, shedding the tears of a loving sister. A cloud over her eyes mars her red-flushed face, [530] and it breaks into rain on her comely cheek.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 549
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