Regardless which reading one gives to line 376, Teiresias assertion about Apollo’s capacity (ἱκανὸς Ἀπόλλων) seems to hold true: Apollo is quite capable of seeing to Oidipous’s fate without the seer’s aid and he is quite capable of protecting from harm the seer who serves him. [Apa] The seer’s phrasing will have reminded the audience of a prophecy given the Delphians, when, asking the god what they should do to preserve the god’s treasures from the Persians, they were told that the god was capable of handling the problem himself: ἱκανὸς Ἀπόλλων. [Gt-a] That Delphi was not sacked by the Persians vindicated the god’s reassurance, which now suggests that Teiresias’s reiteration of the same wisdom will prove equally valid; the god is capable of fulfilling all his prophecies, including those regarding Oidipous’s fate. [Apc] [Apa] Indeed, as the audience already knows, the god has already brought to fruition both the fate expressed to Oidipous and the one expressed to Laios as a consequence, if he ignores the god’s prohibition on intercourse with his wife. Laios did ignore it, and when his wife brought a baby into this world, he took steps to have it destroyed so as to obviate the prophecy. The audience is presently quite aware, however, that Laios failed to avert his fate; the child he and Iokaste conceived did eventually kill him, thereby demonstrating (to the audience) that Apollo does have the capacity to carry out his prophecies. Thus, as Teiresias’s present speech echoes the wording of earlier prophecies, it reminds the audience of the god’s capacity to make good on the words uttered by the seers and Oracles who speak for him. [Apcma]