In describing Oidipous’s passion as “living with you,” Teiresias seems to refer metonymically to the woman with whom Oidipous lives in marriage: his mother. In adverting to this circumstance, Teiresias is clearly not communicating with Oidipous, whose thoughts are presently far removed from the prophecy concerning his incest. His speech seems rather to be informed by the prophetic vision with which he is associated. His present double entendre, then, unlike those spoken by Oidipous, seems to be intentional. If this is so, then he is speaking in a way that allows Oidipous to persist in his misconceptions while at the same time signaling his own clear grasp of the truth; he shows that he has another audience in mind: himself, the god whose purposes he serves–the god whose prophecy Oidipous believes he can evade–or the onlooking Thebans, who may one day recall these words and measure them against the facts that have since emerged. It will see then, as the audience sees now, that Teiresias accentuates the fact that Oidipous’s failure to grasp the truth stems from his belief that prophecy has been invalidated. This realization would prompt the audience to recognize that it is not simply observing the unfolding of prophecy and myth; it is observing how a person who has received a prophecy that foresaw what he is presently experiencing can be caught up in its realization without seeing it. Witnessing Oidipous’s realization of prophecy while failing to see it, the audience, like Apollo, can judge him for his failure to attend properly to information the god gave him at his request. [Mi] [Md] [Aj]