Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. Ah me, why do you speak of that old trouble?
Messenger
  1. I freed you when you had your ankles pinned together.
Oedipus
  1. It was a dread brand of shame that I took from my cradle.
Messenger
  1. So much so that from that fortune you were called by that name which you still bear.