The Tragedies of Seneca / Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ACT IV

Oedipus: My soul is filled with dark, foreboding fear;

For the gods in heaven and hades join the charge765

That by my guilty hand King Laius fell.

And yet my soul, in conscious innocence,

And knowing better than the gods themselves

Its secret deeds, denies the charge.

But now,

Along the shadowy vistas of the past,

My memory beholds an agéd man who fell