Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.
- Your words are strange and unkind to the state which nurtured you, since you withhold this response.
- I see that you, for your part, speak inappropriately.
- Therefore do not speak, so I will not suffer the same.
- For the love of the gods, do not turn away, if you have knowledge: all we suppliants implore you on our knees.