 | Frances Arabella Rowden - 1820 - 178 pages
...king,had been informed by the oracle, that the son who should proceed from his marriage with Joeasta should be the murderer of his father, and the husband of his mother. When the^child was born, he was exposed to become the prey of wild beasts. But being found by one of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...consult the oracle of Delphi, and was there told not to return home; for if he did he must necessarily be the murderer of his father, and the husband of his mother. This answer terrified him ; he knew no home but the house of Polybus, and therefore resolved not to return... | |
 | Sophocles - 1860 - 156 pages
...Corinth, by whom he was nourished. When the child had become a man, he learned from the oracle that he should be the murderer of his father, and the husband of his mother. To avoid such issues he fled from Corinth, supposing thus he was leaving his own parents. This very... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet - 1895 - 364 pages
...but near the end of the fourth act I went to sleep." "Well, it had been predicted that (Edipus would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother ; so, believing Polybius to be his father, he left home without saying anything about it, and started... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1893 - 450 pages
...sleep." " I will, then, briefly tell you the story: " I knew CEdipus; it was foretold that he would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother. Now, believing Polybius his father, he left him and set out, without assigning any reason, for Phocis.... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1894 - 376 pages
...matter of fact Cagliostro did keep on. " Well, I knew (Edipus. It had been predicted that he would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother ; so believing Polybius to be his father, he left the old man's Court without saying good-bye, and... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1899 - 558 pages
...matter of fact Cagliostro did keep on. " Well, I knew (Edipus. It had been predicted that he would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother ; so believing Polybius to be his father, he left the old man's Court without saying good-bye, and... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 1908 - 380 pages
...being subject to as morbid an imagination as Macbeth, he consulted an oracle, which warned him that he should be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother. Knowing only Corinth as his home, he fled on in fear, till in a narrow road he met an imperious personage... | |
 | William Alanson White - 1916 - 358 pages
...satisfied and went to consult the oracle at Delphi. He was told not to return home for if he did he would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother. As the home of Polybus was the only home he knew he resolved not to return to Corinth so set out towards... | |
 | 1922 - 426 pages
...learns that the oracle of Apollo has come true, and that for years he has been, as it said he was to be, the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother — is in dramatic terminology the Peripeteia of the play. To quote Professor Norwood's essay on The... | |
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I will, then, briefly tell you the story : " I knew CEdipus ; it was foretold that he would be the murderer of his father and the husband of his mother. Now, believing Polybius his father, he left him and set out, without assigning any reason, for Phocis. 
