My children, latest generation born from Cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in
supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants and cries of pain?
so I have come in person-I, Oedipus,
whose fame all men acknowledge.
I shall assist you willingly in every way.
I would be a hard-hearted man indeed,
if I did not pity suppliants like these.
Who is Cadmus?
o Oedipus's father
O legendary founder of Thebes
Another name for Teiresias
O Jocasta's husband