Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. How then, unless some intrigue had been worked with bribes
  2. from here in Thebes, would the robbers have been so bold?
Creon
  1. Such things were surmised. But once Laius was slain no avenger arose in the midst of our troubles.
Oedipus
  1. But when royalty had fallen in this way, what trouble prevented a full search?