Oedipus's curse on his sons
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Oedipus's prayer · curse of Oedipus · the curse
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Phoenissae
The curse Oedipus pronounces on Eteocles and Polyneices, that they should divide their inheritance by the sword.
Afflicted by his fate, he makes the most unholy curses against his sons, praying that they may divide this house with a sharp sword.
While in the house the old blind man, always possessed by his tearful longing for the pair of brothers estranged from the home, rushed to kill himself with the sword or by the noose suspended over his chamber-roof, moaning his curses on his sons;
Oh, try to escape your father’s curse!
Alcibiades 2
The rash curse Oedipus pronounced on his sons, later fulfilled with disastrous results for the family.
Just as Oedipus, they say, suddenly prayed that his sons might divide their patrimony with the sword:
Well, just such a person, as I was saying, Alcibiades, was Oedipus;