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| | Creon -- Oedipus |
 | | Apparently, according to the shepherd, Iocaste instructed him to get rid of the baby, to which Oedipus proclaimed: "An unspeakable mother!" Furthermore, the shepherd said that instead of killing the child, he pitied it and gave him to the messenger who used to be a herdsman in his youth. |
 | | However, the shepherd claimed that he had given the child to the messenger and the messenger in turn gave the child to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. |
 | | If all of this is true, then that child must be Oedipus, which means that he had inadvertently fulfilled the prophecy by killing his biological father, Laios, and marrying his biological mother, Iocaste. |
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