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What is unintentionally ironic about Oedipus's statement in Lines 248-249?​

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The Ironic prediction is that Oedipus is the one who killed his father when everyone thought he was dead; "My child was doomed to kill him... It was my child that died first"

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(Sophocles 808-811)

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