Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. How, then, did he call me his son?
Messenger
  1. Long ago he received you as a gift from my hands.
Oedipus
  1. And yet he loved me so dearly, who came from another’s hand?
Messenger
  1. His former childlessness won him over.