Oidipous pointing out to his daughters that he “was shown” (ἐφάνθην) to have sown them in the same furrow out of which he was sown recalls Homer’s statement that “the gods soon made it all known to mortals” (ἀνάπυστα θεοὶ θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν; Odyssey 11.274), but with this difference: Oidipous’s language implies recognition that the act of revelation was performed by another, and yet he declines to acknowledge the god. It seems odd moreover that this statement follows immediately upon his comment that he made no inquiry. He did make inquiry at Delphi, where a god informed him about an incestuous marriage producing abominable children. While he appears to have misunderstood what the god said to him, present circumstances dovetail precisely with his interpretation. He should not fail to see that things have turned out in accord with prophecy, and yet he does seem not to recognize that he has been compelled to fulfill that prophecy precisely as he understood it; he murdered his father, married his mother, and their children are an abomination. [Mpei] [Apa]