Tunc primum ad coetus sociaeque ad foedera mensae semper inaspectum diraque in sede latentem Oedipoden exisse ferunt vultuque sereno canitiem nigram squalore et sordida fusis ora comis laxasse manu sociumque benignos affatus et abacta prius solacia passum; quin hausisse dapes insiccatumque cruorem deiecisse genis.
They say that Oedipus, who always hid out of sight in his sinister abode, then for the first time came out to join a gathering in the bond of a social banquet; that with face serene he cleared the dark filth from his white hair and the unkempt straying locks from his countenance and suffered his fellows kindly greetings and comfortings hitherto rebuffed; nay, even that he swallowed the fare and wiped the dried blood from his eyes.
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