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What do you think oedipus means by calling himself a “child or fortune?

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Because he was adopted by a wealthy family.

When he was born, a prophecy told that Oedipus will be killing his own father, so his family abandoned him.
But he later on adopted by a wealthy family, thus he thought himself as a child of fortune
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