Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. Alas, why? What do you want to learn?
Oedipus
  1. Did you give this man the child about whom he asks?
Servant
  1. I did. Would that I had perished that day!
Oedipus
  1. Well, you will come to that, unless you tell the honest truth.