Oedipus Rex and following this, a servant exits the palace to speak of what has happened inside. When Jocasta enters the house, she runs to the palace bedroom and hangs herself there. Shortly afterward, Oedipus enters in a fury, calling on his servants to bring him a sword so that he might cut out his mother's womb. He then rages through the house, until he comes upon Jocasta's body. Giving a cry, Oedipus takes her down and removes the long gold pins that held her dress together, before plunging them into his own eyes in despair. A blind Oedipus now exits the
Aegypius (mythology) fond of taking out eyes; and Timandre into an "aegithalos" (αἰγίθηλος), now the word for "long-tailed tit", but the Greek bird may also be any of the Paridae. This is the fifth story of the "Metamorphoses" of Antoninus Liberalis. He credits the first book of the "Origins of Birds" by Boeus; but neither that nor any other work with this story has survived. Aegypius (mythology) In Greek mythology, Aegypius (Αἰγυπιός), son of Antheus, son of Nomion, a Thessalian, was the lover of Timandre, a widow. Her son, Neophron, resented this relationship, and plotted against it by seducing Bulis (Βοῦλ-ις, -ιδος),