ὑψοῦ γὰρ αἴρει θυμὸν Οἰδίπους ἄγαν λύπαισι παντοίαισιν· οὐδ᾿ ὁποῖ᾿ ἀνὴρ ἔννους τὰ καινὰ τοῖς πάλαι τεκμαίρεται, ἀλλ᾿ ἐστὶ τοῦ λέγοντος, ἢν φόβους λέγῃ.
—Σοφοκλής, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος 914–197
For Oedipus excites his soul overmuch with all manner of alarms, nor, like a man of sense, judges the new things by the old, but is at the will of the speaker, if he speak terrors.
—Translated by Richard C. Jebb (ed), Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, Volume 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge University Press 2010)
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