# Oedipus 1.1036-1079

Seneca the Younger, Oedipus, Lines 1.1036-1.1079. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-younger/oedipus/1.1036

socer est. utrumne pectori infigam meo
telum an patenti conditum iugulo inprimam?
eligere nescis uulnus: hunc, dextra, hunc pete
uterum capacem, qui uirum et gnatos tulit.
Cho. Iacet perempta. uulneri immoritur manus
ferrumque secum nimius eiecit cruor.
Oe. Fatidice te, te praesidem ueri deum
compello: solum debui fatis patrem;
bis parricida plusque quam timui nocens
matrem peremi: scelere confecta est meo.
o Phoebe mendax, fata superaui impia.
Pauitante gressu sequere fallentes uias;
suspensa plantis efferens uestigia
caecam tremente dextera noctem rege.
ingredere praeceps, lubricos ponens gradus,
i profuge uade—siste, ne in matrem incidas.
Quicumque fessi corpore et morbo graues
semanima trahitis pectora, en fugio, exeo:
releuate colla. mitior caeli status
posterga sequitur: quisquis exilem iacens
animam retentat, uiuidos haustus leuis
concipiat. ite, ferte depositis opem:
mortifera mecum uitia terrarum extraho.
Violenta Fata et horridus Morbi tremor,
Maciesque et atra Pestis et rabidus Dolor,
mecum ite, mecum. ducibus his uti libet.
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