Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.

  1. This very thing, old man, this constantly frightens me.
Messenger
  1. Do you know, then, that your fears are wholly in vain?
Oedipus
  1. ---How so, if I was born of those parents?
Messenger
  1. Because you had no blood in common with Polybus.