This question repeats the demonstrative pronoun at the center of the Corinthian’s riddle: “Is he still living, this man?” The riddle suggested that “this” could refer to the herdsman, Laios, Oidipous, or perhaps even Apollo. Laios is of course known to be dead, Oidipous is clearly alive, and the god cannot die. The ambiguity can thus be removed, which makes it clear that Oidipous is asking about Laios’ herdsman, but the momentary ambiguity superimposes the rescue onto Laios’ death, and this suggests that if the infant was to serve as the god’s agent in killing Laios, the god had to have a second, third, and fourth agent to secure the first. The god-as-shepherd-of-mortal-events is very much alive. [Apamu]