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Oedipus Tyrannus (1017-1040)

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What are you saying? Was Polybus not my father?
Messenger
Just as much, and no more, than he who speaks to you.
Oedipus
And how can my father be equal to him who is as though nothing to me?
Messenger
But he did not father you, any more than I did.
Oedipus
How, then, did he call me his son?
Messenger
Long ago he received you as a gift from my hands.
Oedipus
And yet he loved me so dearly, who came from another’s hand?
Messenger
His former childlessness won him over.
Oedipus
And had you bought me or found me by chance, when you gave me to him?
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Messenger
I found you in Cithaeron’s winding glens.
Oedipus
And why were you roaming those regions?
Messenger
I was in charge of mountain flocks.
Oedipus
What, you were a shepherd—a vagrant hireling?
Messenger
But your savior, my son, in that hour.
Oedipus
And what was my pain when you took me in your arms?
Messenger
The ankles of your feet might bear witness.
Oedipus
Ah me, why do you speak of that old trouble?
Messenger
I freed you when you had your ankles pinned together.
Oedipus
It was a dread brand of shame that I took from my cradle.
Messenger
So much so that from that fortune you were called by that name which you still bear.
Oedipus
Oh, in the name of the gods, was the deed my mother’s or father’s? Speak!
Messenger
I know not. He who gave you to me knows better of that than I.
Oedipus
What, you got me from another? You did not find me yourself?
Messenger
No. Another shepherd gave you to me.

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