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Continuing double entendre allows the audience to redirect Oidipous’s question to the god: “Did you [Apollo] really think I wouldn’t know this work (my marriage, my kingship) was yours?” But, of course he does not at all suspect Apollo. He is still of the opinion that he has evaded performance of the deeds prophesied in the name of the gods. Even now he is demonstrating both how naïve he is and how competent Apollo is to both speak and act in the mortal domain. [Gd] [Apcmu] [Apa]