Translation examples
No tenías nada que temer, porque no eres hijo de Pólibo.
You never had reason to fear—for you were not the son of Polybus.
Apareció un mensajero llegado de Corinto para anunciar a Edipo la muerte de Pólibo.
A messenger came from Corinth to announce to Oedipus the death of Polybus.
¡Si Pólibo no se hubiera hecho cargo del pequeño Edipo, Sófocles no hubiera escrito su más bella tragedia!
If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy!
Yo estuve en Delfos justo antes de venir aquí, porque un hombre me había dicho a la cara que yo no era hijo de Pólibo.
I went to Delphi just before I came here because a man had flung it in my face that I was not the son of Polybus.
Él también, como Layo, intentó que no fuera posible hacer realidad la predicción del oráculo, decidiendo no ver nunca más a Pólibo.
He, too, like Laius, thought to make it impossible for the oracle to come true; he resolved never to see Polybus again.
Había dejado su hogar, Corinto, donde se decía que era el hijo del rey Pólibo, y la razón su autoexilio no era otra que el oráculo de Delfos: Apolo había declarado que estaba destinado a matar a su padre.
He had left his home, Corinth, where he was held to be the son of the King, Polybus, and the reason for his self-exile was another Delphic oracle. Apollo had declared that he was fated to kill his father.
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