1 Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Introduced and Translated by ...
1 Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Introduced and Translated by ...
1 Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Introduced and Translated by ...
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OEDIPUS<br />
What is left for me to see, or love,<br />
Or what words could be pleasant to hear<br />
Dear friends,<br />
Throw me out, throw me away, 1340<br />
One who stinks of death,<br />
A man most hated <strong>and</strong> most cursed <strong>by</strong> the gods.<br />
You suffer both in mind <strong>and</strong> fate.<br />
I wish I had never come to know you.<br />
CHORUS<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Damned be that shepherd<br />
Who released my feet from their cruel ties, 1350<br />
Snatched me from death, <strong>and</strong> saved me.<br />
He did me no favor.<br />
If I had died, there would have been no suffering<br />
For those close, nor for myself.<br />
That would have been my wish also.<br />
CHORUS<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
I would not have killed my father,<br />
Nor be known as the husb<strong>and</strong> of she who bore me.<br />
Now I am a godless man, child of cursed parents, 1360<br />
A man who conceived children as siblings<br />
To those his own father had conceived.<br />
If there is an evil that surpasses evil itself,<br />
<strong>Oedipus</strong> claims it.<br />
Somehow you were ill-advised,<br />
Because you would be better off dead<br />
Than living as a blind man.<br />
CHORUS<br />
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