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Creon won't act until he hears from Apollo. Oedipus is relieved, and pleased in a way, that Apollo is to determine his fate after all. But isn't it obvious, he tells Creon, that he was intended to die on Cithaeron: why not cast him out? But he has a feeling that he has been saved from death for a purpose [which will be revealed many years later in the sequel, Oedipus at Colonus]. But he'd like to say farewell to ..