Kreon’s prediction that Oidipous will some day “know these things ἀσφαλῶς,” literally: “without tripping” implies a propensity for tripping over knowledge. Indeed, where his moniker “Swollen Foot” suggests that the injuries sustained as a child reduce his physical footing to the point that he may limp and use a cane, he has also sustained injuries to the mind that result in its operating with a similar limp that causes him to trip over knowledge based on false assumptions. His success thus far in life is an illusion based on fallible information or thought processes. [Mw] Thus, he and those who have judged him to be good will eventually discover themselves to have been mentally and morally lame. [Mpea]