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Execution or exile is the punishment threatened by Oedipus for withholding information about the murderer in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Thebes suffers from a pestilence that the Delphic oracle says will end with the identification and the execution or exile of the guilty in Theban King Laius' murder. King Oedipus takes it upon himself to extend that punishment. Whoever withholds information or harbors or helps the guilty also will be punished with execution or exile.

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