Iokaste’s second point is that foresight, by which she must mean prophecy, has no clarity. πρόνοια conveys much the same idea as προύλεγον, the word she used when she boasted of her success in forecasting prophecy’s defeat (l. 973). The glaring error in that boast draws the audience to the opposite conclusion: that prophecy will eventually show its strength and all “still-current” (l. 971) prophecies will prove to have been accurate. She would be right, however, if she meant that human foresight lacks clarity. [Mpei] Thus, her argument for mortals to ignore prophecy on the grounds that it is unreliable, unavailable, and unnecessary fails. The correct conclusion is that submission to chance makes no sense at all, but when the institution of prophecy makes provision for mortal access to divine foresight submission to a god’s direction is quite reasonable. [Mi]