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Oedipus Rex

Name: Oedipus Rex
Author: Sophocles

by Sophocles

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.

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Suppliants of all ages are seated round the altar at the palace doors, at their head a Priest of Zeus. To them enter Oedipus.

Oedipus

My children, latest born to Cadmus old,