1241: "Laius," she cried, and called her husband dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus the King] Reference

My father was Oedipus, the son of Laius; my mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenissae] Reference

Laius, king of Thebes, the son of Labdacus, and a direct descendant of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Oedipus relentlessly peruses facts to uncover the murderer of King Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Men called me Jocasta, for so my father named me, and I am married to Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phoenissae] Reference

Thebes, and on the way had met Laius, his true father, the king, and killed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of All Nations Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources] Reference

The protagonist of the tragedy is the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

He had him from a shepherd, a servant of Laius, the very man whom Oedipus had summoned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

He became king of Thebes and the husband of Jocaste, the widow of his father, king Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

To save himself, Laius ordered his newborn son placed on a mountaintop and left to starve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus] Reference

The oracle was false, for Laius had died at the hands of robbers in a place where three roads met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

He must know if King Laius was mugged and killed by a band of robbers or by a lone wanderer 47 - 49.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

She requests that Oedipus desist in his pursuit to understand his birth and the murderer of Laius 55.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

He was proclaimed king in Laius’ stead, and he took the dead king’s widow, Jocasta, as his own wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus] Reference

Oedipus on inquiry learns that there are several murderers, but only one of Laius 'attendants escaped alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

"That guilt of blood is blasting all the state;" that this guilt is connected with the death of Laius, and that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

The man whom he slew in that same mountain pass fell by no robber band, and, therefore, could not have been Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

My father is Œdipus the son of Laius; Jocasta daughter of Menœceus brought me forth; the Theban people call me Polynices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

He was too horror-stricken to return to Corinth, and as he travelled the other way, he met Laius going from Thebes to Delphi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

But after some years a plague descended on the people, and Apollo, on being inquired of, answered that it was for Laius 'death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

Now, Oedipus has two mysteries to solve that seem frighteningly interwoven, that of the murderer of Laius and that of his own birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Laius, the descendant of Cadmus, and king of Thebes (or Thebè), had been told by an oracle that if a son were born to him by his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

OEdipus engages earnestly in the business of unraveling the mystery connected with the death of Laius, the cause of all the Theban woes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

The oracle bids the Thebans expel the murderer of Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference

Oedipus calls upon Tiresias to reveal the Murderer of Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference

The full absurdity of the thing is seen in the case of Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference

Oedipus is the son of Laius, King of Thebes, and Queen Jocasta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles] Reference

So he reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus Trilogy] Reference

A quarrel ensues from the insolence of attendants, and Œdipus kills Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient States and Empires] Reference

Meeting Laius in a narrow pass, and provoked by his attendants, he slew them and him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

Paine's second chorus describes the imaginary pursuit by Fate of the murderer of King Laius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

The onslaught from without has been repulsed, but the male line of the house of Laius is extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference

To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oedipus Trilogy] Reference