Hearing him mention curses, Iokaste admits to trembling to look directly at him, as if she does not want to see now what she did not see before: the family resemblance between two husbands. She seems now to be examining the coincidence in their looks and interpreting it, as well she should, in terms of the prophecies. While Laios and she were not told that she should marry the son who killed Laios, she must be capable of reasoning that, if it is the case that Laios was killed by their son, and if, as Teiresias has said, Oidipous killed Laios, then she has married Laios’ killer and their son. If her trembling is a sign that she has completed this equation, then it is also a sign that she is holding prophecy in proper regard by incorporating it into her reasoning. [Mp] [Mi]