Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. kinfolk alone should see and hear a kinsman’s woes.
Oedipus
  1. For the gods’ love—since you have done a gentle violence to my prediction and come in a spirit so noble to me, a man most vile—grant me a favor: I will speak for your own good, not mine.
Creon
  1. And what do you wish so eagerly to get from me?
Oedipus
  1. Cast me out of this land with all speed, to a place where no mortal shall be found to greet me.