Give them no heed, I say; where it ended. So I and the road splits there, one of two roads from Delphi, sent him away. He was an honest man, another comes from Daulia.
Why is your hear so set on this? How old or young was he? Whom not unlike you. Polybus was my father, king of Corinth,49 and Merope, the Dorian,50 my mother.
I am terrified I was held greatest of the citizens when I look at you. And I went at last to Pytho, though my parents did not know. Jocasta, I will tell you the whole truth. Now if he uses the same num- going on foot, I was encountered by ber, it was not I who killed him. One man cannot a herald and a carriage with a man in it, be the same as many.
But if he speaks of a man just as you tell me. He that led the way travelling alone, then clearly the burden of the and the old man himself wanted to thrust me guilt inclines toward me. I became angry and struck the coachman who was pushing me.
He cannot unsay it now, for every and as I passed he struck me from his carriage, one in the city heard it—not I alone. But, Oedi- full on the head with his two pointed goad.
And then I killed them declared that the king should be killed by his own all. If it happened there was any tie son. And that poor creature did not kill him of kinship twixt this man and Laius, surely, —for he died himself first. So as far as who is then now more miserable than I, prophecy goes, henceforward I shall not look to what man on earth so hated by the Gods, the right hand or the left.
But yet, send some one for the peasant but drive me out of doors? And it is I, to bring I and no other have so cursed myself. Was I not born evil? Now let me go indoors. I Am I not utterly unclean? I had to fly will do and in my banishment not even see nothing except what pleases you. May destiny ever find me O no, no , no—O holy majesty pious in word and deed of God on high, may I not see that day!
But until you see for God is great in them and grows not old. Antistrophe Insolence55 breeds the tyrant, insolence 53 infamies n. Or best of all, if you know, where is the king himself? This of hand or word and gives no heed lady is his wife and mother to Justice and the shrines of Gods of his children. When such things are done, what man shall contriveto What do you shield his soul from the shafts of the God? What have you When such deeds are held in honor, to tell us?
Good for your house Antistrophe and for your No longer to the holy place, husband. Who sent you to us? Perhaps a little pain too. That is the rumor there. He is in his grave. I can do no good news! O oracles of the Gods, where are you now? It by my advice, and so I came as suppliant was from to you, Lycaean Apollo, who are nearest.
These are the symbols of my prayer and this And now he is dead, in the course of nature, and not killed by Oedipus. What is his message for me? Tell me yourself. Or does the sacred law forbid another to have knowledge of it? But they, sir.
Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly. Tell me. Is he the man he arms? Such is my breeding, heed; and I shall never prove so false to it, nor try to keep in mind what has been said. It will be wasted labor. Who was it bore you, child? Or was she a bride of Loxias, your mother? God keep you from the knowledge of who you are! His old age is consonant with the other. I recognize as my own servants. You that is all I can call you, and the last thing perhaps may better me in knowledge since that I shall ever call you.
I am afraid that trouble will break out of this silence. I at least shall be willing to see my ancestry, though humble. Were you ever dishonored.
How did you live? What do you want to know? I have told you that I gave it. Well—am I right or not in what I said we did? Why do you ask the question? Your words are more at fault than his. Or born in wedlock? But I must hear. O Zeus—and killed and reduced to nought the hooked taloned maid of the riddling speech,66 HERDSMAN: The child was called his child; but she standing a tower against death for my land; within, hence he was called my king and hence your wife would tell you best how all this was.
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