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My children, latest generation born from Cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants and cries of pain? … so I have come in person—I, Oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge. … I shall assist you willingly in every way. I would be a hard-hearted man indeed, if I did not pity suppliants like these. Based on its context, what is a suppliant?

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suppliants mean pleas for help or just say i think based on the text suppliants means a person who is begging for something but is not reaveling it completley

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Someone who seeks help, forgive me if im incorrect

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