And if to weary hearts thou bring'st relief,

With quickened utterance thy news proclaim.

Creon: In dark obscurity the answer lies.

Oedipus: Who gives me doubtful succor grants me none.

Creon: It is the custom of the Delphic god

In dark enigmas to conceal the fates.215

Oedipus: Yet speak; however dark the riddle be

'Tis given to Oedipus alone to solve.

Creon: Apollo doth ordain that banishment

Be meted out to him who slew our king,