Now I am forsaken by the gods, son of a defiled mother, successor to the bed of the man who gave me my own wretched being:if there is a woe surpassing all woes, it has become Oedipus’ lot.

ChorusI cannot agree that you have counseled well: you would have been better dead than living and blind.OedipusDo not tell me that things have not been best done in this way: