London: C. J. CLAY AND SON, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. THE OEDIPUS TYRANNUS EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY R. C. JEBB DOCTOR OF LETTERS, CAMBRIDGE: HON. LL.D. EDIN. AND HARVARD, Cambridge: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1885 [All rights reserved.] PREFATORY NOTE. IN preparing the present school-edition, I have enjoyed the advice and assistance of my friend the Rev. M. A. BAYFIELD, Assistant Master at Malvern College, who has regulated the abridgment from the larger edition with a view to the requirements of the higher Forms in Public Schools. I am anxious to take this opportunity of expressing my warm acknowledgments to him, both for the very great kindness with which he has bestowed much time and trouble on a self-imposed task, and also for several valuable suggestions made by him in the |