Kreon’s use of the word γνώμη to make the point that a judgment needs to be based on clear evidence echoes his use of the same word just above (l. 601) to refer to good and bad reasoning. While Oidipous and Kreon are confident in their personal sense of reason, proof, and conviction, the accusations presently touching both of them suggest that proof is not so easily come by. Agreeing with Oidipous that he would vote for his own death sentence, if in a presumed trial it were proven that he had conspired with Teiresias, he insists upon firm evidence, by which he means a clear statement by the Pythia. In this regard he differs from Oidipous, who has been working from circumstantial evidence and mistrust of the seer. Assessing the difference between their conceptions of adequate evidence in the context of the present dispute, the audience would prefer Kreon’s. Absent hard physical evidence or reliable eyewitnesses, the next best touchstone would be a consultation with at Delphi. This choice emerges as the best sign of clear and unbiased thinking. [Mpe] [Mi]