Translated by F. Storr. From the Loeb Library Edition, Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London. First published in 1912.
Chorus:
The plea thou urgest, needs must give us pause,
Set forth in weighty argument, but we
Must leave the issue with the ruling powers.
Oedipus:
Where is he, strangers, he who sways the realm?
Chorus:
In his ancestral seat; a messenger,
The same who sent us here, is gone for him.
Oedipus:
And think you he will have such care or thought
For the blind stranger as to come himself?
Chorus:
Aye, that he will, when once he learns thy name.
Oedipus:
But who will bear him word!
Chorus:
The way is long,
And many travelers pass to speed the news.
Be sure he'll hear and hasten, never fear;
So wide and far thy name is noised abroad,
That, were he ne'er so spent and loth to move,
He would bestir him when he hears of thee.
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