Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus 1524 – 1530

The Chorus concludes the appaling scene of Oedipus’ exit with these final words of the play.

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day and let none presume on his good fortune until he find life at his death a memory without pain.

This translation is by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, Oedipus Rex in Sophocles: the Oedipus cycle: and English Version (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949).