# Endnotes explained — Oedipus Rex

> Chapter companion for Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.

## What happens

This chapter contains scholarly endnotes referencing translation choices and a note about a missing portion of the Greek text.

## Key lines

> Dr. Kennedy and others render “Since to men of experience I see that also comparisons of their counsels are in most lively use.”

Dr. Kennedy and other translators offer a version that emphasizes how experienced men find comparisons of advice very vivid.

_This note discusses a specific translation choice by Dr. Kennedy._

> Literally “not to call them thine,” but the Greek may be rendered “In order not to reveal thine.”

The literal translation is 'not to call them thine,' but the Greek can also be interpreted as 'In order not to reveal thine.'

_This note explains an alternative rendering of the Greek phrase._

> The Greek text that occurs in this place has been lost.

The original Greek text at this point is missing.

_This note indicates a lacuna in the surviving manuscript._

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