Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. What are you saying? Was Polybus not my father?
Messenger
  1. Just as much, and no more, than he who speaks to you.
Oedipus
  1. And how can my father be equal to him who is as though nothing to me?
Messenger
  1. But he did not father you, any more than I did.