Oedipus, Sonne of Lains and Iocasta, whose father vnderstanding by Oracle that hee shoulde bee slaine of his owne sonne, committed him being an infant to his sheepehearde to kil him. But he being mooued with pitie, and yet not so bolde to refuse and disobey his maisters commaundement, made holes through the childs feete, and by a Wyth, hung him on a tree, by that meanes thinking he would die for hÛger. At which time happily one Phorbas king Polybius his heardman of Corinth hauing occasion to asse that way hearing the child crie, faued it, and brought him as a great present to the Oueene his maistresse that had no child. She esteeming it to be sent hir of God by a myracle, for that it was so goodly a babe, brought it vp tenderly as hir owne, and of his swollen feete called him Oedipus. He comming to age, & vnderstanding that he was not Polybius hys son, determined to go seeke his father. Whcrfore learning by oracle % at Phocis he shonld meete with his father, he passed thyther, & at his comming, finding the people of the citi inan vproare & turnult, as it fortuned he tooke part with certaine, and vnwares killed his owne father Lains, who was come thither to quiet the sedition. And so was the oracle fulsilled that signysied hee shoulde lighte on his sather at Phocis. Then thinking himselfe to be deluded by the oracle, he went to Thebes. Where, because he was thought to be Polybius his sonne, & had dissolued the riddle of Spinr, he was made king of Thebes, and vnwittingly maryed the Oueene Iocasta his owne mother, and had by hir four children. Finally, haning knowiedge at length % by misfortune he had murdered his father, at Phucis, and by incest hadde knowne his owne mother, so sore it griened him, that in reuengement thereof he pulled out his owne eycs, and lived uer after in banishment, hauing his daughter Antigone to leade him, by whom he was oftentimes preserued when hee woulde haue flaine himselfe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Oedĭpus, ŏdis and i (gen. Oedipŏdis, Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3; acc. Oedipum, id. Sen. 7, 22; id. Fat. 13, 30; abl. Oedipŏde, id. ib. 14, 33; Stat. Th. 7, 513: Oedipo, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 34; plur. acc. Oedipodas, Mart. 9, 26, 10), m., = *oi)di/pous. I.A king of Thebes, theson of Laius and Jocasta. He unwittingly killed his father; he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and unknowingly married his own mother, who had by him Eteocles, Polyneices, Ismene, and Antigone; when the incest was discovered, he put out his own eyes, and wandered forth to Athens, where a temple was afterwards dedicated to him, Hyg. Fab. 66; 67; 242; Serv. Verg. A. 4, 470; 6, 609; Sen. Oedip.; Cic. Fat. 13, sq.; Varr. Sat. Men. 62, 1.—Prov. for a solver of enigmas: isti orationi Oedipo Opus conjectore est, qui Sphingi interpres fuit, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 34: Davus sum, non Oedipus, I am no dipus (that can solve all riddles), Ter. And. 1, 2, 23.—Hence, A. Oedĭpŏdes, ae, m., = *oi)dipo/dhs, a collat. form for Oedipus, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 289: impii Oedipodae nuptiales faces, Sen. Herc. Fur. 496; Stat. Th. 1, 48; 163; abl. Oedipoda, Sen. Oedip. 942.—B. Oedĭpŏdĭa, ae, f., = *oi)dipodi/a, a fountain in Bœotia, named after dipus, Plin. 4, 7, 12, 25.— C. Oedĭpŏdīŏnĭdes, ae, m., the son of dipus; of Polyneices, Stat. Th. 1, 313: Oedipodionidae fratres, i. e.
Eteocles and Polyneices
, Aus. Epigr. 139; cf. Stat. Th. 7, 216.—D. Oedĭpŏdīŏnĭus, a, um, adj., = *oi)dipodio/nios, of or belonging to dipus, Thebœ, Ov M. 15, 429; Luc. 8, 407 (where others read Oedipodionidas, from Oedipodionis, idis, f.): ales, i. e.
Sphinx
, Stat. Th. 2, 505: fratres, id. ib. 10, 801.—II. Oedipus Colonēus, the title of a tragedy of Sophocles, Gr. *oi)di/pous e)pi\ *kolwnw=|, Cic. Sen. 7, 22; Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 12; and of a tragedy of Cœsar, Suet. Caes. 56ext.