Like a dog, the sphinx sang unintelligibly, just as Delphi’s priestess expresses herself in enigmatic riddles, and yet Oidipous understood the riddle and solved it. Yet, as the audience has just been shown, he fails to understand Teiresias when he is speaking fairly directly. The fact that Oidipous understood the sphinx suggests that it served him like his own dog. Yet it was not he who trained this dog; like Delphi, its language can be understood through an extensive familiarity that permits for disambiguation. At Delphi the god spoke to him, but he was not disposed to disambiguates, so the god placed before him a singing dog, whose speech was made for his understanding. The dog’s language is in this case made for its “master.” [Apcma] [Apco]