When Teiresias suggests that Oidipous dismiss him (ἄφες μ’), the audience again hears familiar legal terminology, which reinforces the impression that the questioning of this witness is now proceeding as if before a court of Athenian jurors. Yet the witness is a seer; the authority for his testimony is not direct personal knowledge but divine inspiration, a kind of evidence at odds with the premises of judicial process. One must maintain a clear distinction between the pursuit of truth or justice from a secular court and from a source of divine instruction and correction. [Mg] [Mip]