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Chorus
Time the all-seeing has found you out, against your will: he judges the monstrous marriage in which [1215] parent and child have long been one. Alas, child of Laius, would that I had never seen you. I wail as one who pours a dirge from his lips. [1220] It was you who gave me new life, to speak directly, and through you darkness has fallen upon my eyes.
Sophocles. The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. Edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1887.
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