GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg004.perseus-eng2:960-963 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg004.perseus-eng2:960-963

By treachery, or from illness?MessengerA light tilt of the scale brings the aged to their rest.OedipusAh, he died, it seems, of sickness?MessengerYes, and of the long years that he had lived.