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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Oedipus: I heard as much, but never saw the man.

Creon: He fell; and now the god's command is plain:
Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be.

Oedipus: Where are they? Where in the wide world to find
The far, faint traces of a bygone crime?

Creon: In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."

Oedipus: Was he within his palace, or afield,
Or traveling, when Laius met his fate?

Creon: Abroad; he started, so he told us, bound
For Delphi, but he never thence returned.

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