Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. You speak the truth, though it was long ago.
Messenger
  1. Come, tell me now: do you remember having given me a boy in those days, to be reared as my own foster-son?
Servant
  1. What now? Why do you ask the question?
Messenger
  1. This man, my friend, is he who then was young.