The bull is said to repudiate (ἀπονοσφίζων) Delphic prophecy, yet at the present moment Oidipous is assiduously following Delphi’s instructions. The audience is also well aware, however, that he once went to Delphi in person, where he was told that he must kill his father and marry his mother, to which he responded by fleeing the sacred precinct. [Gm] Insofar as he meant thereby to avoid doing as the Oracle foretold, he was indeed repudiating divine prophecy, in order to do which, he willingly deprived himself of contact with his parents and community. [Md] This means that there is no break in the identity of bull, object of the god’s hunt, and Oidipous. This comment delivers an insight rendered all the more powerful by the fact that it comes from a body of ordinary citizens who cannot understand the import of what they say. [Apcmu] According to their song, Oidipous’s decision to flee the Delphic prophecy is to be regarded not in the light of his understandable and even noble impulse to avoid wrongdoing at all costs, but in light of his disregard for oracle and god. [P] Indeed, the man’s repudiation of Delphi gives the god solid grounds for ordering his pursuit and capture. [Aj]