OEDIPUS.
Chide if thou wilt, but first attend my plea.
THESEUS.
Say on, I wait full knowledge ere I judge.
OEDIPUS.
O Theseus, I have suffered wrongs on wrongs.
THESEUS.
Wouldst tell the old misfortune of thy race?
OEDIPUS.
No, that has grown a byword throughout Greece.
THESEUS.
What then can be this more than mortal grief?
OEDIPUS.
My case stands thus; by my own flesh and blood
I was expelled my country, and can ne’er
Thither return again, a parricide.
THESEUS.
Why fetch thee home if thou must needs obey.
THESEUS.
What are they threatened by the oracle?
OEDIPUS.
Destruction that awaits them in this land.