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 Apollo, friends, Apollo who brought these troubles
  2. to pass, these terrible, terrible troubles. But the hand that struck my eyes was none other than my own, wretched that I am!
  3. Why should I see, when sight showed me nothing sweet?
Chorus
  1. These things were just as you say.