Oedipus Tyrannus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.
- Was it really for fear of this that you became an exile from that city?
- And because I did not wish, old man, to be the murderer of my father.
- Why have I not relieved you of this second fear, my lord, since I came to give you pleasure?
- And indeed you will have worthy thanks from me.