OEDIPUS.
'Tis this, old man, I dread unceasingly.
MESSENGER.
Knowest thou not that thy alarms are vain?
OEDIPUS.
How vain, if of these parents I was born?
MESSENGER.
Polybus was no relative of thine.
OEDIPUS.
What say'st thou? Was not Polybus my sire?