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Laius

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.





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... and the mother's authority. As for her "impiety," of which the old commentaries used to speak with much disapproval, the essential fact in her life is that both her innocence and her happiness have, as she believes, been poisoned by the craft of priests. She and Laius both "believed a bad oracle": her terror and her love for her husband made her consent to an infamous act of cruelty to her own child, an act of which the thought sickens her still, and about which she cannot, when she ...
— Oedipus King of Thebes - Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes • Sophocles


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