Oedipus expresses his anxieties over his predicted fate and the present plague in Thebes. However, he vigorously rejects Jocasta’s charge of spinelesssness.For spinelesssness read spinelessness. The mistake persists in the Digital Loeb Classical Library.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sigmatism
Seneca, Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. [Seneca,] Hercules on Oeta. Octavia. Edited and Translated by John G. Fitch (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004 = Loeb Classical Library, 78), p. 4 (summary of Oedipus, Act I):