Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. What, my friends, can I behold anymore, what can I love, what greeting can touch my ear with joy? Hurry, friends,
  2. lead me from the land, lead me from here, the utterly lost,
  3. the thrice-accursed, the mortal most hateful to the gods!
Chorus
  1. Wretched alike for your fortune and for your understanding of it, would that I had never known you!