Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. By treachery, or from illness?
Messenger
  1. A light tilt of the scale brings the aged to their rest.
Oedipus
  1. Ah, he died, it seems, of sickness?
Messenger
  1. Yes, and of the long years that he had lived.