Sophocles quoque gloriosum cum Rerum Natura certamen habuit, tam benigne mirifica illi opera sua exhibendo quam illa operibus eius tempora liberaliter sumministrando: prope enim centesimum annum attigit, sub ipsum transitum ad mortem Oedipode   scripto, qua sola fabula omnium eiusdem studii poetarum praeripere gloriam potuit.
Sophocles too had a glorious contest with the Nature of Things, producing his marvellous works for her as unstintingly as she generously provided the time to compose them. For he almost attained his century, writing Oedipus at Colonus just at the point of passing from life to death; a play by which in itself he was able to preempt the glory of all poets in the same genre.
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