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 67

Messenger: As much thy sire as I am, and no more.

Oedipus: My sire no more to me than one who is naught?

Messenger: Since I begat thee not, no more did he.

Oedipus: What reason had he then to call me son?

Messenger: Know that he took thee from my hands, a gift.

Oedipus: Yet, if no child of his, he loved me well.

Messenger: A childless man till then, he warmed to thee.

Oedipus: A foundling or a purchased slave, this child?

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