Oedipus Monologue from Oedipus at Colonus

From Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

male · anguished · 41 sec

My hope is faint, but still enough survives To bid me bide the coming of this herd. (JOCASTA: Suppose him here, what wouldst thou learn of him?) I’ll tell thee, lady; if his tale agrees With thine, I shall have ’scaped calamity. (JOCASTA: And what of special import did I say?) In thy report of what the herdsman said Laius was slain by robbers; now if he Still speaks of robbers, not a robber, I Slew him not; “one” with “many” cannot square. But if he says one lonely wayfarer, The last link wanting to my guilt is forged.

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