Raising the question of just profits, the word δικαίως echoes the charges of Athens’ former allies and returns to the topic introduced in the strophe’s third line, where Oidipous’s fearless pursuit of justice evoked the audience’s admiration for him. In light of the implication that Athenian profits are ill-gotten, however, it may now be seen how this criticism applies to him as well; no matter how ignorant of his victim’s identity he may have been when he struck the man down, it cannot be denied that Oidipous profited from the wrongful death, because it paved the way to his possession of the Theban throne and all benefits perquisite to it (including marriage to Queen Iokaste). Once the audience recognizes that the charge of ill-gotten gains applies both to Athens and to Oedipus it will infer that the sufferings to which both Oidipous and Athens are being subjected come at the gods’ hands and may be equally deserved. [Gt-a] [Aj]