LAYUS. King Laius of Thebes was warned by the Delphic Oracle that his son would kill him. When Oedipus was born to his wife Jocasta, Laius ordered the baby killed by driving a spike through his ankles and by exposure on Mount Cithaeron. A shepherd found the baby and took him to the king and queen of Corinth. When Oedipus inquired of the Delphic Oracle about his parentage, he was told that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Thinking that the people who had reared him were his parents, he fled from home. On the way to Thebes, he met a litter with an old man, whose servants refused to let him pass. During the fight that ensued, Oedipus killed the old man. Later, after he had married the queen, Jocasta, he learned that the old man had been his father, Laius (Roman de Thèbes 1-517; The Story of Thebes 1-517).

Pandarus finds Criseyde reading the story of Thebes, and how King Layus died because of his son Edippus, Tr II.100-102. [Edippe]

Layus, the ME spelling variant, occurs in medial position, Tr II.101.