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Question: Oedipus the King line number!?
I have a homework question that says to look at lines 291-305 in the play, but doesn't give any information about what is happening there!. Unfortunately, my book doesn't have line numbers in it, so I have no idea where this!. If any of you have a numbered edition of Paul Roche's translation, could you please give me a couple lines so I know where this is talking about, I don't need help with the question!.
Please make sure you have the Roche translation!.
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I couldn't find Roche's translation, but maybe this will at least help you find it in your version!. Here are the lines from another translation!.

I may suffer all those things I’ve just called down
upon the killers!. And I urge you now
to make sure all these orders take effect,
for my sake, for the sake of the god,
and for our barren, godless, ruined land!.
For in this matter, even if a god
were not prompting us, it would not be right
for you to simply leave things as they are,
and not to purify the murder of a man
who was so noble and who was your king!.
You should have looked into it!. But now I
possess the ruling power which Laius held
in earlier days!. I have his bed and wife—
she would have borne his children, if his hopes
to have a son had not been disappointed!.
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