edippus

Updated: May 7, 2025

Then Socrates the brute! would laugh at her, and would go out and sit on the front door-steps, and look henpecked. This is positively the meanest thing a man can do! "Look at that poor man," said the wife of Edippus the cobbler. "I do believe his wife is cruel to him: see how sad and lonesome he is." "Don't play with those Socrates children," said another matron.

Eugene Field - Second Book of Tales