Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

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

  1. You did, but I was mislead by my fear.
Iocasta
  1. Now no longer take any of those things to heart.
Oedipus
  1. But surely I must fear my mother’s bed.
Iocasta
  1. What should a mortal man fear, for whom the decrees of Fortune are supreme, and who has clear foresight of nothing? It is best to live at random, as one may.