As may have been anticipated, Oidipous does not respond in the slightest to a plea in the gods’ name. Rather, he increases the level of his threats. Of course, were he to kill the witness, he would deprive himself of his only remaining source of information and vindication. Violence, then, defeats any hope he might have for resolving the questions he still has. In his readiness to resort to violence, however, he expresses the qualities of character that led to Laios’ death and so fulfilled that prophecy. [Md] [Apamu] Violence is not the solution to such problems; it plunges its proponent into a situation that demands the god’s violent intervention to put matters back to rights. [Dnc] [Aj]