Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.
- For all of you are without knowledge. But never will I reveal my troubles—not to call them yours.
- What are you saying? Do you know the secret and refuse to tell it? Will you betray and destroy the state?
- I will grieve neither myself nor you. Why do you ask these things in vain? You will not learn the answers from me.
- Will you not, basest of the base—