What information does Jocasta provide in this section?

JOCASTA

I’ll set your mind at peace. Listen to me.

No mortal can be a prophet, and I’ll prove it to you.

Laius was given a prophecy, not from Apollo, but his priests, who said that he would die at the hands of his son.

What happened?

Laius was killed by robbers at the place where three roads meet.

When his baby son was three days old, his ankles were bound together, and he was left to die on a wild mountainside.

So Apollo’s oracle did not come to pass: 720 the son did not kill his father; Laius did not suffer what he feared,

death at his son’s hands.

So much for prophets. Ignore them.

What the gods want to happen, they will see to themselves.