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 our way of thinking, these words, both his and yours, Oedipus,
  2. have been said in anger. We have no need of this, but rather we must seek how we shall best discharge the mandates of the god.
Teiresias
  1. Though you are king, the right of reply must be considered the same for both: over that I have control.
  2. For I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.