Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, 981-2

 

 

“Many a man before you has slept with his mother in dreams.”

 

πολλοὶ γὰρ ἤδη κἀν ὀνείρασιν βροτῶν

μητρὶ ξυνηυνάσθησαν.

 

He solved the riddle of the Sphinx but not the riddle of himself

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