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vv. 551–562

Who thinks to slay his brother with a trick

And suffer not himself, his eyes are blind.

Thy words are more than just. But say what kind

Of wrong thou fanciest I have done thee. Speak.

Didst urge me, or didst urge me not, to seek

A counsel from that man of prophecies?

So judged I then, nor now judge otherwise.

How many years have passed since Laïus

[The words seem to choke him.

Speak on. I cannot understand thee thus.

Passed in that bloody tempest from men’s sight?

Long years and old. I scarce can tell them right.

At that time was this seer in Thebes, or how?