Sophocles' OEDIPUS THE KING Complete

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.

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Page 20

Teiresias: Aye, for ye all are witless, but my voice
Will ne'er reveal my miseries--or thine. [2]

Oedipus: What then, thou knowest, and yet willst not speak!
Wouldst thou betray us and destroy the State?

Teiresias: I will not vex myself nor thee. Why ask
Thus idly what from me thou shalt not learn?

Oedipus: Monster! thy silence would incense a flint.
Will nothing loose thy tongue? Can nothing melt thee,
Or shake thy dogged taciturnity?

Teiresias: Thou blam'st my mood and seest not thine own
Wherewith thou art mated; no, thou taxest me.

Oedipus: And who could stay his choler when he heard
How insolently thou dost flout the State?

[Footnote 2: Literally "not to call them thine," but the Greek may be rendered "In order not to reveal thine."]

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