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Rh Whence he became the ruler of this land;

Yea, for his guerdon wins the throne of Thebes,

And weds his mother,—wretch!—unwitting he,

Unwitting she that she was her son's bride.

And children to my son I bare, two sons,

Eteokles and famed Polyneikes' might,

And daughters twain: the one the father named

Ismênê, the elder I, Antigonê.

But, when he knew me mother both and wife,

Oedipus, crushed 'neath utterest sufferings,

On his own eyes wrought ruin horrible,

Yea, with gold brooch-pin drenched their orbs with blood.

Now, being to bearded manhood grown, my sons