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" TEIRESIAS:
I tell you, king, this man, this murderer
(whom you have long declared you are in search of,
indicting him in threatening proclamation
as murderer of Laius)- he is here.
In name he is a stranger among citizens
but soon he will be shown to be a citizen
true native Theban, and he'll have no joy
of the discovery: blindness for sight
and beggary for riches his exchange,
he shall go journeying to a foreign country
tapping his way before him with a stick.
He shall be proved father and brother both
to his own children in his house; to her
that gave him birth, a son and husband both;
a fellow sower in his father's bed
with that same father that he murdered.
Go within, reckon that out, and if you find me
mistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy. "

Aeschylus , The Complete Greek Tragedies (4-vol. set)


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Aeschylus quote : TEIRESIAS:<br />I tell you, king, this man, this murderer<br />(whom you have long declared you are in search of,<br />indicting him in threatening proclamation<br />as murderer of Laius)- he is here.<br />In name he is a stranger among citizens<br />but soon he will be shown to be a citizen<br />true native Theban, and he'll have no joy<br />of the discovery: blindness for sight<br />and beggary for riches his exchange,<br />he shall go journeying to a foreign country<br />tapping his way before him with a stick.<br />He shall be proved father and brother both<br />to his own children in his house; to her<br />that gave him birth, a son and husband both;<br />a fellow sower in his father's bed<br />with that same father that he murdered.<br />Go within, reckon that out, and if you find me<br />mistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy.