Oedipus: Thou gavest me? But who gave me to thee?
Old Man: A shepherd on Cithaeron's snowy slopes.
Oedipus: How camest thou within that sacred wood?
Old Man: My sheep upon that mountain did I seek.810
Oedipus: Now on my body name some well-known mark.
Old Man: Behold, thy feet in infancy were pierced,
And from thy swollen ankles art thou named.
Oedipus: Who was the man who gave me as a gift
Into thy hands?
Old Man: He fed the royal flocks,815