Oidipous does eventually ask Teiresias for clarification, saying that he wishes “better to learn” (μᾶλλον μάθω) the nature of the seer’s charge against him. Now he wishes to be instructed. The audience could at this point well instruct him based on its growing awareness of his impiety and its role in events as they are unfolding. If this request expresses genuine humility, it is welcome, and it raises the question, whether the situation is to any extent still susceptible to amelioration. [Md]