Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. When the stealthy plotter is moving on me quickly, I, too, must be quick in my counterplot.
  2. If I await him in repose, his ends will have been gained, and mine lost.
Creon
  1. What do you want then? To banish me from the land?
Oedipus
  1. Hardly. I desire your death, not your exile, so that I might show what a thing envy is.