The Chorus is not referring to itself or Oidipous; it is addressing the wilderness, Kithairon, just named by the Corinthian as the place where he received the swollen-footed infant from a Theban herdsman, the event that seemed to be in Oidipous’s mind when he said just a moment ago that the months were his siblings; he believes they defined him as infant and they define him now. The audience knows otherwise, that Oidipous’s life has been defined by his parents’ disobedience to the god in conceiving a baby, by their belief in their ability to negate prophecy and thwart the god by exposing their infant son on Kithairon, by the god’s response to this effort by saving Oidipous from Kithairon, and by Oidipous’s return to Kithairon as he beat a hasty retreat from Delphi, which led him straight to Laios. So, if the Chorus means to say to Kithairon that it, the wilderness, will not tomorrow be without experiential knowledge of Oidipous’s familial circumstances, it is making the same error that Oidipous has been making; it is misidentifying the source of influence that shapes mortal lives. Apollo is god, and Teiresias and Delphi are true prophets who speak in his name. [P] [Mpea] [Mip]