... , she hung. He [Oedipus] too has seen her - with a moaning cry looses the hanging trap, and on the ground has laid her. Then -oh, sight most terrible-He snatched the golden brooches from the Queen lifted them and struck. Deep to the very founds of light. Oedipus's grief over the completion of the prophecy and the suicide of Jocosta is so ... ...

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