Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. I think he speaks of no other than the peasant you already wanted to see. But our lady Iocasta might best tell you that.
Oedipus
  1. Lady, do you know the one whom we summoned just now?
  2. Is it of him that this man speaks?
Iocasta
  1. Why ask of whom he spoke? Regard it not; waste not a thought on what he said; it would be vain.