{1}{1}23.976 {9914}{9973}You're here to take my place, {9977}{10040}send me back into the void, {10043}{10110}and rob me of all i have. {10439}{10492}Come along, ma'am {10794}{10858}she'll be the first thing|you steal from me {10859}{10908}she, the woman i love. {10908}{10956}You already steal her love. {11152}{11190}He's asleep. {11858}{11904}Let's go. {12029}{12074}Stop it. {12356}{12397}Mommy! {20971}{21045}What swollen little feet!|Tied up so tight... {21107}{21150}don't cry, don't cry... {21763}{21793}who is it? {21798}{21853}- He was alone on mount cithaeron.|(son of fortune) {21857}{21954}I found him there. He was|crying, so i brought him here {21958}{22018}- thinking you...|- give him to me, idiot! {22076}{22125}Son of fortune. {22157}{22230}See him? He squeals like a goat. {22234}{22321}This son of fortune|shall be king of corinth. {24273}{24321}Queen! {24347}{24381}Queen look! {24410}{24445}The king! The king! {24788}{24881}Queen, look what i've got here! {24881}{24927}A gift of the gods! {24927}{25008}He's cute,|his eyes look like stars. {25039}{25094}A gift of the gods! {25165}{25216}Why this look... {25218}{25288}so sad and grave?|Laugh, instead! {25302}{25382}Give thanks to the gods.|We have found a son. {25385}{25460}Give him to me. How you hold him!|Do you want to kill him? {25464}{25534}Without the slightest delicacy... {25576}{25642}come, "little swollen feet". {25646}{25726}Little oedipus, my son... {26751}{26782}i won! {26838}{26907}I won! Crown me! {27037}{27091}I won! {27098}{27156}Oedipus kicked the disk ahead. {27159}{27205}See the mark! {27295}{27463}Foundling! Son of fortune!|False son of your father and mother! {28268}{28308}Mother... {28349}{28437}i had a bad dream,|but i don't remember it. {28440}{28547}I woke up crying,|and trembling in the dark. {28565}{28629}The gods meant|to tell me something. {28636}{28675}But what, {28679}{28729}if i can't remember it? {28730}{28810}I lay awake till dawn came. {28814}{28889}Afraid of the silence|and the darkness. {28895}{28937}Mother, father, {28941}{29043}i'd like to go to delphi|to ask the oracle of apollo, {29056}{29116}about my dream,|about what i can't remember. {29120}{29153}Of course, my son. {29157}{29237}All make a pilgrimage|at least once in their life. {29242}{29330}To apollo's shrine, rich and poor|to ask about their dreams, {29333}{29373}and you haven't gone yet. {29377}{29412}It's beautiful there. {29414}{29484}I went there with your father|when i was young. Didn't i? {29486}{29526}Do you remember? {29527}{29596}It's a real feast,|better than ours. {29600}{29679}Very well. If you want to go... {29691}{29788}then go. You'll have|an incomparable escort. {29795}{29848}No father. I'll go alone. {29868}{29936}Our son is right. {29955}{30036}The gods don't care for|display, they want sincerity. {30055}{30084}When will you leave? {30116}{30152}Tomorrow at dawn. {30170}{30218}So soon? At once? {30228}{30266}Why should i wait? {30270}{30370}I don't want that dream|to come and torment me again. {31156}{31237}Don't cry.|I'll be back in a few days. {31416}{31473}Goodbye son. {31494}{31547}Goodbye, "little swollen feet". {31595}{31663}Goodbye father.|Goodbye mother. {36800}{36878}In your fate it's written|you will kill your father {36882}{36945}and will make love|with your mother. {37230}{37303}You understand?|It's written in your fate. {37307}{37390}You will kill your father|and make love with your mother. {37406}{37491}This says the god,|and it'll surely come to pass. {37533}{37576}Now go away. {37593}{37657}Don't infect people|with your presence. {41067}{41116}Corinth {43473}{43564}where are you going, my youth?|Where, my life? {44322}{44377}Thebes {50877}{50922}away! {50926}{50967}Out of my way, beggar! {51067}{51135}I warn you! {51197}{51287}Off the road!|Watch out! {65498}{65562}Boy, what happened? {65566}{65657}Why are all these|people leaving the city, {65667}{65752}and are camping|here like a tribe of gipsies? {65761}{65786}Do you know? {65791}{65885}Of course i know.|I'm messenger, i bring the news, {65889}{65928}so i have to know. {65936}{65961}And? {66001}{66035}Come with me. {67674}{67730}That's tiresias, the prophet. {67809}{67934}Your brothers and fellows weep|searching for salvation. {67935}{67997}And you're here alone,|blind and singing. {67999}{68133}I wish i were you!|You sing what's beyond destiny. {69532}{69598}Our city's misfortune is up there. {69630}{69734}It came up from a deep abyss|to frighten us. {69738}{69792}We were all doing fine before. {69805}{69857}Who could have imagined that? {69860}{69932}Nobody dares drive it|back to the abyss, {69936}{70009}even thought the man who does|will marry jocasta, {70015}{70053}the queen of thebes. {70057}{70112}And so our city's lost. {70117}{70202}Everyone's leaving, as|there's no point in staying. {70898}{70936}Where are you going? {70938}{70998}Don't go! It's no use! {71009}{71054}You'll die. {71094}{71151}Come back! What are you doing? {71153}{71193}Come back! {71706}{71788}There's an enigma in your life.|What is it? {71793}{71848}I don't want to know it. {71923}{71963}It's useless. {71988}{72022}I don't want to see you. {72027}{72097}I don't want to see you.|I don't want to hear you! {72099}{72207}It's useless. The abyss where|you're thrusting me is inside you. {72887}{72932}The sphinx is dead! {73097}{73134}Come! Come! {73156}{73211}The sphinx is dead! {73862}{73915}The sphinx is dead! {75620}{75704}Come to creon!|Come to the queen! {75706}{75814}You killed the sphynx and|you'll become the queen's husband! {75814}{75890}You'll be king! Come! {76118}{76144}There she is. {80089}{80131}My love. {84298}{84403}These boys and i|are here to beseech you, {84413}{84485}not because|we look upon you as a god. {84489}{84551}When you came here, {84555}{84613}didn't you rid us of the sphinx? {84623}{84713}You didn't perform this act|because you're wiser than we. {84720}{84766}But with a god's help. {84771}{84857}Therefore oedipus, our king,|we beg you on our knees, {84862}{84911}find a solution {84915}{84996}whether prompted|by a god or a man. {85007}{85060}You who are the best among us, {85064}{85104}give life back to us. {85121}{85199}Don't let your reign|be remembered {85203}{85258}because you upraised us {85262}{85314}and then let us fall again. {85609}{85690}I am aware of|the wishes you bring, {85694}{85741}oh unfortunate citizens. {85745}{85795}I know how you suffer. {85799}{85850}But no one suffers more than i. {85854}{85940}Because your sorrow|touches one alone of you {85944}{86028}while mine is the sorrow|of all, mine and yours. {86052}{86106}You haven't awaken me. {86118}{86187}I was not sleeping, i was crying. {86198}{86252}Seeking ways to escape. {86287}{86390}There is only one course.|I have taken it. {86407}{86482}I have sent my brother-in-law|creon to apollo's shrine. {86487}{86550}To learn what to do. {86605}{86692}And having counted the time|since creon left, {86697}{86732}i am anxious. {86750}{86791}What's he doing? {86819}{86889}Why is he so late?|Why hasn't he returned yet? {87348}{87401}Creon is here. {87664}{87757}God. May he bring us|a fate of salvation! {87907}{87977}Creon, my brother-in-law,|my friend! {87981}{88027}What is the answer? {88038}{88079}Good news! {88100}{88161}Even the most horrid|things can end well. {88165}{88224}We want the answer. {88262}{88340}Shall i tell it before all|or inside the house? {88352}{88392}Before all. {88396}{88453}I suffer for them. {88458}{88532}"To defeat the disease|which plagues thebes, {88536}{88600}"the man who spread it|must leave the town". {88609}{88683}What is he charged with?|What can his sentence be? {88697}{88755}Death or exile. {88760}{88843}A murder is the cause|of what's happening here. {88858}{88909}Who might the victim be? {88934}{88991}Before you, the king was laius. {89002}{89077}So i was told.|I never met him. {89082}{89165}He is the victim. The gods|want his murderer to be punished. {89165}{89231}How can we find him? {89235}{89331}Where can we find the traces|of a crime which took place so long ago? {89333}{89410}Here, the god said. {89461}{89536}Here. And he added: {89540}{89615}"What we don't want to know|does not exist, {89615}{89676}"but what we want to know, {89709}{89754}"exists." {89807}{89876}Was laius killed in the palace? {89880}{89940}In the country?|Abroad? {89948}{90003}He was going to apollo's shrine, {90045}{90088}and he never returned. {90091}{90161}No guard or travelling companion {90165}{90221}witnessed the murder? {90223}{90277}Only one escaped. {90286}{90331}And reported one thing. {90336}{90408}What? From one thing|others can be deduced. {90418}{90472}Yes, there were rumours. {90483}{90530}What? {90535}{90628}That he wasn't killed by bandits|but by a wayfarer. {90636}{90674}Who could prove it? {90679}{90738}The only living witness. {90741}{90823}Frighten him, and he'll speak. {90857}{90902}These are my decisions: {90906}{90962}As you king i command {90966}{91059}that whoever knows|who killed laius speak, {91065}{91142}even if he knows|he'd accuse himself. {91145}{91194}If those who know don't speak, {91198}{91296}i forbid the men of this nation|which now is mine {91300}{91380}to welcome him|and pray with him. {91386}{91453}I shall avenge the slain king {91459}{91504}as if he were my father. {91524}{91585}Now that his power has passed to me, {91589}{91678}and his possessions|and his wife are mine. {98295}{98350}Tiresias! You're here! {98352}{98425}I have sent for you,|and from you i'll know all. {98439}{98499}How terrible knowldge is, {98525}{98615}when to know is useless|to him who knows. {98668}{98709}I knew, {98719}{9...
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