Oedĭpus, ŏdis and i (gen. Oedipŏdis, Cic. Fin. 5, 1, 3; acc. Oedipum, id. Sen. 7, 22; id. Fat. 13, 30; abl. Oedipŏde, id. ib. 14, 33; Stat. Th. 7, 513: Oedipo, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 34; plur. acc. Oedipodas, Mart. 9, 26, 10), m., = Οἰδίπους.
I A king of Thebes , the son of Laius and Jocasta. He unwittingly killed his father; he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and unknowingly married his own mother, who had by him Eteocles, Polyneices, Ismene, and Antigone; when the incest was discovered, he put out his own eyes, and wandered forth to Athens, where a temple was afterwards dedicated to him, Hyg. Fab. 66; 67; 242; Serv. Verg. A. 4, 470; 6, 609; Sen. Oedip.; Cic. Fat. 13, sq.; Varr. Sat. Men. 62, 1.—Prov. for a solver of enigmas : isti orationi Oedipo Opus conjectore est, qui Sphingi interpres fuit, Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 34: Davus sum, non Oedipus, I am no Oedipus (that can solve all riddles), Ter. And. 194.—Hence,
A Oedĭpŏdes , ae, m., = Οἰδιπόδης, a collat. form for Oedipus, Claud. ap. Eutr. 1, 289: impii Oedipodae nuptiales faces, Sen. Herc. Fur. 496; Stat. Th. 1, 48; 163; abl. Oedipoda, Sen. Oedip. 942.—
B Oedĭpŏdĭa , ae, f., = Οἰδιποδία, a fountain in Boeotia , named after Oedipus , Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25.—
C Oedĭpŏdīŏnĭdes , ae, m., the son of Oedipus; of Polyneices , Stat. Th. 1, 313: Oedipodionidae fratres, i. e. Eteocles and Polyneices , Aus. Epigr. 139; cf. Stat. Th. 7, 216.—
D Oedĭpŏdīŏnĭus , a, um, adj., = Οἰδιποδιόνιος, of or belonging to Oedipus , Thebae , Ov. M. 15, 429; Luc. 8, 407 (where others read Oedipodionidas, from Oedipodionis, idis, f.): ales, i. e. Sphinx , Stat. Th. 2, 505: fratres, id. ib. 10, 801.—
II Oedipus Colonēus, the title of a tragedy of Sophocles , Gr. Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Cic. Sen. 7, 22; Val. Max. 8, 7, ext. 12; and of a tragedy of Caesar , Suet. Caes. 56 ext.