The words just brought by Kreon from Delphi are neither mute nor aged. Of whom can the Chorus be thinking? Mute would be those who know of the murder but are unwilling to tell. Aged would be those who may have been present or had some knowledge that they have since forgotten. Those would be limitations indeed, but as the audience knows, the one who committed the murder is not mute; he is speaking but has no idea of his own involvement. The problem is not in Oidipous’s case one of a conscious decision to hide the truth or a frail memory, but false assumptions and an inability to hear the god even when he speaks. [Mpea] [Mi] [Gd]