Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. or avoid unholy deeds, but seeks to lay profaning hands on sanctities. Where such things occur, what mortal shall boast any more that he can ward off the arrow of the gods from his life?
  2. No. For if such deeds are held in honor, why should we join in the sacred dance?
Chorus
  1. No longer will I go reverently to the earth’s central and inviolate shrine, no more to Abae’s temple or to Olympia,
  2. if these oracles do not fit the outcome, so that all mortals shall point at them with their fingers.