Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.
- No, it is not your fate to fall at my hands, since Apollo, to whom this matter is a concern, is sufficient.
- Are these Creon’s devices, or your own?
- Creon is no trouble for you: you are your own.
- O wealth, and empire, and skill surpassing skill in life’s keen rivalries, how great is the envy in your keeping, if for the sake of this office which the city has entrusted to me, a gift unsought,