Again the oracle was consulted and it bade them purge themselves of bloodguiltiness. To them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon theĬity. Reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen. The riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king. He encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father's house and in his flight Parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the weird declared before to Polybus being childless adopted theīoy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Took him to his master, the King or Corinth. Shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who Infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge
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