Stasimon 2
Iocasta
And what was the story?
Chorus
It is enough, I think, enough, when our land is already vexed, that the matter should rest where it stopped.
685
Oedipus
Do you see to what you have come, for all your noble intent, in seeking to slacken and blunt my zeal?
[Choral 2]
King, I have said it more than once—
Chorus
be sure that I would have proved myself a madman, bankrupt in sane counsel, if I forsook you—you, who gave a true course to my beloved country when it was
690
distraught with troubles, and who now are likely to prove our prospering guide.
695
Iocasta
In the name of the gods, tell me, king, the reason that you have conceived this steadfast wrath.
