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