By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipus And who is the man whose fate he thus reveals? Creon Laius, my lord, was the leader of our land before you assumed control of this state. Oedipus [105] I know it well—by hearsay, for I never saw him. Creon He was slain, and the god now bids us to take vengeance on his murderers, whoever they are. Oedipus Where on earth are they? Where shall the dim track of this old