Even if the witness changes his testimony, Oidipous will not concede that guilt has been fully established; rather, he would then allow only that “the deed [is] tipping straight to me.” Where, however, Oidipous sees a subtle tipping of the scales of justice, the audience is confronted by a sizable imbalance, for Oidipous is prepared to accept dubious testimony as proof of his own innocence while regarding a change in the witness’s testimony as inconclusive. The standards of justice thus seem to be out of balance, apparently thrown off not by Oidipous’s fear of punishment as much as by his unshakeable conviction that he simply cannot be responsible for the city’s pollution, even when the evidence seems clearly to point towards this conclusion. [Mg] [Md] [Mpea]