Oidipous repeats his earlier request for immediate banishment from Thebes, but his word ἄποικον can mean colonist and may suggest that by leaving Thebes he will only land somewhere else, a place whose constitution he, as colonist, will determine or at least influence, and thereby pollute. Athens may now consider that as it disseminates its attitudes through colonization, it gives broader scope to its own impiety and so extends the scope of resistance to the god and consequently calls for divine intervention into those colonies as well. [Gt-a] [Mg] [P] [Dnc] [Aj] [Mw]