No one prompted you, you were not taught by any of us. We tell ourselves, you had a god's help when you pulled us back to life.50 Once more, Oedipus, we need your power. We beg you, each in our own pain find our lost strength!by learning what you can from a god's voice or what some man can tell you. I know this: advice from men proven right in the past will meet a crisis with the surest force. Act as our greatest man! Act as you did when you first seized fame!60 Our country believes your nerve saved us then. Don't let us look back on your rule, saying, once he raised us, but later let us fall. Lift us to safety!so that no misstep ever again will bring Thebes down. Good luck came with you, a bird from god's will, the day you rescued us. Be that same man now. If you are going to rule us, King, it's better to rule the living than a lifeless waste.
