Oh!Oedipus—And the race of the Labdacidae?ChorusO Zeus!Oedipus—and the pitiful Oedipus?ChorusYou are he?OedipusHave no fear of any words that I speak—ChorusAh, no, no!OedipusUnhappy that I am!ChorusOh, oh!OedipusDaughter, what is about to happen?ChorusOut with you! Go forth from the land!OedipusAnd your promise—to what fulfillment will you bring it?ChorusNo man is visited by the punishment of fate if he requites deeds which were first done to himself.Deceit on the one part matches deceits on the other, and gives pain instead of pleasure for reward. And you—back with you! Out from your seat!Away from my land with all speed, that you may not fasten some heavier burden on my city!AntigoneReverent strangers, since you have not endured my aged father—knowing, as you do,the rumor of his unintended deeds—pity at least my poor self, I implore you, who supplicate you for my father alone. I beg you with eyes that can still lookon your own, like one sprung from your own blood, that this sufferer may meet with reverent treatment. On you, as on a god, we depend in our misery. But come, grant the favor for which we hardly dare hope!I implore you by everything that you hold dear at home: by child, by wife, or treasure, or god! Look well and you will not find the mortal who, if a god should lead him on, could escape.