The “useless foot” on which the bull wanders corresponds to Oidipous’s feet, lamed in infancy when they were pierced at the ankles for a thong to be passed through and bound together. The rocky crags among which the bull roams resemble Kithairon, the wilderness in which the infant Oidipous was put out to die and in which he later killed his father. The bull, then, seems to correspond to Oidipous and to suggest that his gait is similarly hobbled and he “miserable,” “idle,” or “useless.” [Gm] [Mp]