What does Oedipus propose as a punishment for the murder?

His pride has blinded him to his oncoming downfall and, fittingly, his punishment for that is to actually become blind.

hoped this helped

this would be in the imperative mood. it is a category of verb forms that are used to express orders,instructions,commands or requests.

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.