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

And under him the hireling shepherds served.

Oedipus: But tell his name.

Old Man: An old man's memory

Grows faint and weakly falters with disuse.

Oedipus: But wouldst thou know the features of the man?

Old Man: I might recall him, for a slender clue820

Ofttimes awakens memory of things

Long buried and forgot.

Oedipus: Then hasten, slaves,

Let all the master-shepherds drive their flocks