Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. I am at a loss what to say. I am flustered in my expectations, seeing neither the present nor the future clearly. Never in past days or in these have I heard how the house of Labdacus or the son of Polybus had any quarrel with one another that
  2. I could bring as proof in assailing the public reputation of Oedipus, seeking to avenge the line of Labdacus
  3. for the undiscovered murder.
Chorus
  1. Zeus and Apollo indeed are keen of thought and know the affairs of the earth.