Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. In this land, the god said. What is sought for can be caught; only that which is not watched escapes.
Oedipus
  1. Was it in the house, or in the field, or on foreign soil that Laius met his bloody end?
Creon
  1. He left our land, as he said, on a mission to Delphi.
  2. And once he had set forth, he never again returned.