Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. But what is the oracle ? So far, your words
  2. neither encourage nor frighten me.
Creon
  1. If you want to hear in the presence of these people, I am ready to speak: otherwise we can go inside.
Oedipus
  1. Speak to all. The sorrow that I bear for these is more than for my own life.