oracle to Laius
Apollo (Delphic oracle)
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation
A specific oracular pronouncement to Laius is reported and attributed to Apollo/the Delphic god.
Just as they say of that Laius, the lover of Chrysippus, who, having come to Delphi, asked the god how children might be born to him.
oration 10 ¶ -
Oedipus Tyrannus Sophocles 1 refuted 1 citation · 3 passages
Jocasta invokes the oracle as a cited prophetic authority but presents it as disproved.
An oracle came to Laius once—I will not say from Phoebus himself, but from his ministers—saying that he would suffer his doom at the hands of the child to be born to him and me.
oedipus tyrannus ¶
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