Oidipous presses forward with the lone concern and goal in his mind to see his own “seed” (σπέρμ᾽)—the stock from which he came. It is poignant that he should make paramount his intent to find his parents at the very moment when he has driven his mother to leave the stage in a state of agitation. He has now been the death of both parents (as they once meant to be the death of him). His “seed,” however, also—or even primarily—includes the children sprung from his sowing. [Gd] These he will soon be forced to regard not only as his children but also as his siblings. In his person, then, stock and seed are confused or mixed (μειχθεῖναι or μιγῆναι to borrow the words of the Oracle at ll. 791 and 995). [Mipd] The generations are folded in on each other. [Mw] It is the recognition of this double sowing of the seed into itself that has driven Iokaste in distraction from the stage. Iokaste is far more ashamed of Oidipous’s conception than he supposed she would be, not because she married a man whose parents proved to be of low station, but because his parents proved to be herself and Laios, an abomination to humankind and an affront to the god because of the disobedience, arrogance, and impiety that it represents. [Md] [P] His prediction, then, unlike those of the Oracle and Teiresias, will prove false: he will not want to look upon his seed—neither the generation that spawned him nor that he spawned.