You are truly sullen in yielding, as you are vehement in the excesses of your wrath. But such natures arejustly most difficult for themselves to bear.OedipusWill you not be gone and leave me in peace?CreonI will go on my way. I have found you undiscerning, but in the view of these men I am just.He exits.
ChorusLady, why do you hesitate to take this man into the house?IocastaI will, when I have learned what has happened.ChorusBlind suspicion, bred of talk, arose, and injustice inflicts wounds.IocastaOn both sides?ChorusYes.IocastaAnd what was the story?ChorusIt is enough, I think, enough, when our land is already vexed, that the matter should rest where it stopped.OedipusDo you see to what you have come, for all your noble intent, in seeking to slacken and blunt my zeal?
ChorusKing, I have said it more than once—be sure that I would have proved myself a madman, bankrupt in sane counsel, if I forsook you—you, who gave a true course to my beloved country when it wasdistraught with troubles, and who now are likely to prove our prospering guide.IocastaIn the name of the gods, tell me, king, the reason that you have conceived this steadfast wrath.