The Robbers
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
robbers · band of robbers · foreign robbers · outpost of the robbers · wayfarers
spoken of as
1 expressionRobbers1 mention
Oedipus Tyrannus (Greek)
He was said to have been killed by some wayfarers.
in the texts
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
Bandits who appear both in the Good Samaritan parable and in the narrative of the young man's fall into crime.
Taking these very men, then, and forming a band of robbers, he was a ready captain of robbers, most violent, most bloody, most cruel.
but He leads by His discourse a certain man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and shows him pierced through by robbers, flung half-dead upon the road, passed by by a priest, overlooked by a Levite, but pitied by the Samaritan—the reproached and excluded man—who passed not by chance, as those others did, but came furnished with the things the man in peril needed:
Oedipus Tyrannus
The group said by rumor and the survivor's report to have attacked and killed Laius.
He was said to have been killed by some wayfarers.
He said that robbers fell upon them, not one man alone, but with a great force.
And Laius—as, at least, the rumor goes—was murdered one day by foreign robbers at a place where the three highways meet.