Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. to the best of his means and powers.
Teiresias
  1. Alas, how terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it. I knew this well, but let it slip from my mind: otherwise I would not have come here.
Oedipus
  1. What now? How disheartened you have come!
Teiresias
  1. Let me go home. For you will bear your own burden to the end, and I will bear mine, if you consent.