Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. This I could have done, to be sure, except I craved first to learn from the god all my duty.
Oedipus
  1. But his pronouncement has been set forth in full—to let me perish, the parricide, unholy one that I am.
Creon
  1. Thus it was said. But since we have come to such a pass, it is better to learn clearly what should be done.
Oedipus
  1. Will you, then, seek a response on behalf of such a wretch as I?