Oedipus
Tell them, I would fain know all.
Chorus
’Twas said he fell by travellers.
Oedipus
So I heard,
But none has seen the man who saw him fall.
Chorus
Well, if he knows what fear is, he will quail
And flee before the terror of thy curse.
Oedipus
Words scare not him who blenches not at deeds.
Chorus
But here is one to arraign him. Lo, at length
They bring the god-inspirèd seer in whom
Above all other men is truth inborn.
Oedipus
Lore of the wise and hidden mysteries,
High things of heaven and low things of the earth,
Thou knowest, though thy blinded eyes see naught.
What plague infects our city; and we turn