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1 Literally “sheep-wolf.”
2 Oedipus, son of Laius king of Thebes and his wife Iocasta, was exposed in infancy, but rescued and carried away to a far country. Returning in manhood, ignorant of his lineage, he killed his father and married his mother; after which the truth was revealed to him, too late. The story is first told by Homer, and is the subject of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1434
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