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But a shepherd came along and found this baby and named him Edipus, which means swelled feet; and when the kid grew up he was walking along a narrow pass when he met his father in disguise. They got into a quarrel over who should turn out and Epidus killed his father.
Well, the queen had said that whoever guessed that riddle could be king and have her for his wife, and Epidus guessed the answer. It's a man, you see, that crawls when he is a baby, stands on two legs when he's grown and walks with a cane when he is old. Epidus married the queen, but when he found out what he'd done he went mad and put his own eyes out. But don't you see he couldn't escape it."
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