Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.
- The tale ran that he would slay his father.
- Why, then, did you give him to this old man?
- Out of pity, master, thinking that he would carry him to another land, from where he himself came. But he saved him for the direst woe.
- For if you are what this man says, be certain that you were born ill-fated.