Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. And was this charge laid against me with steady eyes and steady mind?
Chorus
  1. I do not know. I see not what my masters do. But here comes our lord from the house.
Oedipus enters.
Oedipus
  1. You, how did you get here? Are you so boldfaced that you have come to my house, you who are manifestly the murderer of its master,
  2. the palpable thief of its crown? Come, tell me, in the name of the gods, was it cowardice or folly which you saw in me and which led you to plot this thing? Did you think that I would not notice this deed of yours creeping upon me by stealth, or that if I became aware of it I would not ward it off?