SOPHOCLES
vv. 747–760
Oedipus (to himself).
Horror, if the blind can see!
Answer but one thing and ’twill all be clear.
Jocasta.
Speak. I will answer though I shake with fear.
Oedipus.
Went he with scant array, or a great band
Of armed followers, like a lord of land?
Jocasta.
Four men were with him, one a herald; one
Chariot there was, where Laïus rode alone.
Oedipus.
Aye me! ’Tis clear now.
Woman, who could bring
To Thebes the story of that manslaying?
Jocasta.
A house-thrall, the one man they failed to slay.
Oedipus.
The one man . . . . ? Is he in the house to-day?
Jocasta.
Indeed no. When he came that day, and found
Thee on the throne where once sat Laïus crowned,
He took my hand and prayed me earnestly
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