Is he by any chance in the house now?IocastaNo. Soon after he returned and found you ruling in Laius’ stead,he pled with me, with hand laid on mine, to send him to the fields, to the pastures of the flocks, that he might be far from the sight of this town. And I sent him; he was worthy, for a slave, to win even a larger favor than that.OedipusWould, then, that he return to us without delay!