justle

E ainda: "In the race for wealth and honors and preferment, each may run as hard as he can and strain every nerve and every muscle in order to outstrip all his competitors, but if he should justle or throw down any of them, the indulgence of the spectator is entirely at an end.

But if he should justle, or throw down any of them, the indulgence of the spectators is entirely at an end.

It is not going too far to see in Oedipus's and Lajus's jostling for primacy to pass through the "narrow way" (1.1.472), the "verge"(3.1.526) (perhaps recalled in the famous line Lee gives Oedipus at his moment of discovery: "Gods meet Gods, and justle in the dark!