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. which line supports the inference that oedipus is a proud man? i would be a hard-hearted man indeed i shall assist you willingly in every way are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me i, oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge