previous next  O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy
vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had
never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta's child,
when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, [805] marked
with a golden brooch; and would that the Sphinx, that winged
maid, monster from the hills, had never come as a grief to our
land with her inharmonious songs, she that once drew near our
walls and snatched the sons of Cadmus away in her taloned feet
to the untrodden light of heaven, [810] sent by Hades from hell
to plague the men of Thebes; once more unhappy strife is coming
into bloom between the sons of Oedipus in home and city. For
never can wrong be right, [815] nor can there be good in
unlawful children, their mother's birth pangs, their father's
pollution; she came to the bed of her son. . . .  hide Places
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