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Oedipus Tyrannus (651-704)

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Respect him who was in the past not foolish, and who now is strong in his oath.
Oedipus
Do you understand what you crave?
Chorus
I do.
Oedipus
Tell me, then, what you mean.
Chorus
That you should never use an unproved rumor to cast a dishonoring charge on the friend who has bound himself with a curse.
Oedipus
Then be quite aware that when you seek this you are seeking death or exile from this land for me.
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Chorus
No, by the god that stands at the head of all the host of the gods, no, by the sun. Unblest, unbefriended, may I die the worst possible death, if I have this thought!
But my unhappy soul is worn by the withering of the land, as well as by the thought that our old sorrows should be crowned by new ones arising from the two of you.
Oedipus
Then let him go, though I am surely doomed to be killed
or thrust dishonored from the land. Your words, not his, move me to compassion; but he, wherever he be, shall be hated.
Creon
You are truly sullen in yielding, as you are vehement in the excesses of your wrath. But such natures are
justly most difficult for themselves to bear.
Oedipus
Will you not be gone and leave me in peace?
Creon
I will go on my way. I have found you undiscerning, but in the view of these men I am just. He exits.
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Chorus
Lady, why do you hesitate to take this man into the house?
Iocasta
I will, when I have learned what has happened.
Chorus
Blind suspicion, bred of talk, arose, and injustice inflicts wounds.
Iocasta
On both sides?
Chorus
Yes.
Iocasta
And what was the story?
Chorus
It is enough, I think, enough, when our land is already vexed, that the matter should rest where it stopped.
Oedipus
Do you see to what you have come, for all your noble intent, in seeking to slacken and blunt my zeal?
Chorus
King, I have said it more than once—
be sure that I would have proved myself a madman, bankrupt in sane counsel, if I forsook you—you, who gave a true course to my beloved country when it was
distraught with troubles, and who now are likely to prove our prospering guide.
Iocasta
In the name of the gods, tell me, king, the reason that you have conceived this steadfast wrath.
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Oedipus
That I will do, for I honor you, lady, above these men. Creon is the cause, and the plots he has laid against me.
Iocasta
Come, tell me how the argument began.
Oedipus
He says that I stand guilty of Laius’ blood.
Iocasta
On his own knowledge or on hearsay from another?

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