Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 2: The Oedipus at Colonus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889.
- What will you say?
- —Two daughters—two curses—
- O Zeus!
- —of mine, sprung from the travail of the womb that bore me too.
- These, then, are at once your daughters, and—
- —Sisters, indeed, of their father.
- Oh!
- Indeed, woes untold sweep back upon my soul!
- You have suffered—
- I have suffered woes grievous to bear.
- You have performed—
- I have not performed!
- How?
- A gift was given to me—O, wretched that I am, if only I had never won from the city that gift for my services!
- Cursed man! What of this? Did you commit the murder—
- What now? What would you learn?
- —Of your father?
- Oh! oh! a second stab—wound on wound!
- You killed—
- I killed—yet I have a plea—