The audience can counter Oidipous’s imagination of Polybos lying lifeless in the underworld holding in his hands the prophecies that died with him, because they never pertained to Polybos, and Oidipous’s description of the prophecies can be interpreted to mean “still viable,” “still in force” (παρόντα). They are still vibrant and ever will be, for they have been realized. [Mpea] [Apa]