Oedipus he was her son, begged him to stop his search for Laius' murderer. Oedipus misunderstood her motivation, thinking that she was ashamed of him because he might have been born of low birth. Jocasta in great distress went into the palace where she hanged herself. Oedipus sought verification of the messenger's story from the very same herdsman who was supposed to have left Oedipus to die as a baby. From the herdsman, Oedipus learned that the infant raised as the adopted son of Polybus and Merope was the son of Laius and Jocasta. Thus, Oedipus finally realized that the man
Aegypius (mythology) fond of taking out eyes; and Timandre into an "aegithalos" (αἰγίθηλος), now the word for "long-tailed tit", but the Greek bird may also be any of the Paridae. This is the fifth story of the "Metamorphoses" of Antoninus Liberalis. He credits the first book of the "Origins of Birds" by Boeus; but neither that nor any other work with this story has survived. Aegypius (mythology) In Greek mythology, Aegypius (Αἰγυπιός), son of Antheus, son of Nomion, a Thessalian, was the lover of Timandre, a widow. Her son, Neophron, resented this relationship, and plotted against it by seducing Bulis (Βοῦλ-ις, -ιδος),