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TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in threatening proclamation as murderer of Laius)- he is here. In name he is a stranger among citizens but soon he will be shown to be a citizen true native Theban, and he'll have no joy of the discovery: blindness for sight and beggary for riches his exchange, he shall go journeying to a foreign country tapping his way before him with a stick. He shall be proved father and brother both to his own children in his house; to her that gave him birth, a son and husband both; a fellow sower in his father's bed with that same father that he murdered. Go within, reckon that out, and if you find me mistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy.


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Author Bio


  • NameSophocles
  • Descriptionancient Greek tragedian
  • Born496 BCE
  • Died405 BCE
  • CountryClassical Athens
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet
  • WorksOedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone; Philoctetes