Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. It was a child, then, of the house of Laius.
Oedipus
  1. A slave? Or one of his own clan?
Servant
  1. Alas! I am on the brink of speaking the dreaded words.
Oedipus
  1. And I of hearing: I must hear nevertheless.