In answer to her question, what strange word she was heard to say, the audience will note that when she made her preceding remark, it heard double entendre in the word πεφασμένου; it heard the god’s speech issuing from her mouth. When Iokaste enquires whether this was heard, the god may again be heard to be speaking, and the audience might feel privileged to be hearing him and feeling his presence. [Md] [Apcmu] [Mi]