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 claim to credence can be shown on my part? For in the past I proved to be wholly false to him.
Enter Creon.
Creon
  1. I have not come to mock or reproach you with any any past fault.
  1. But you, if you no longer respect the children of men,
  2. revere at least the all-nurturing flame of our lord the Sun, and don’t show so openly such a pollution as this, one which neither earth, nor holy rain, nor the light itself can welcome. Take him into the house as quickly as you can: it best accords with pity that