PROPHECY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 On this he groaned, and cried out, 'Alas, alas, then the old prophecy about me is coming true.'
2 So I drew back, and sheathed my sword, whereon when he had drank of the blood he began with his prophecy.
3 My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.
4 This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alcinous said, "I remember now the old prophecy of my father."
5 On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades, for his prophecyings had now been spoken, but I sat still where I was until my mother came up and tasted the blood.
6 Then, being much troubled in mind, I said to my men, 'My friends, it is not right that one or two of us alone should know the prophecies that Circe has made me, I will therefore tell you about them, so that whether we live or die we may do so with our eyes open.'
7 So being much troubled I said to the men, 'My men, I know you are hard pressed, but listen while I tell you the prophecy that Teiresias made me, and how carefully Aeaean Circe warned me to shun the island of the blessed sun-god, for it was here, she said, that our worst danger would lie.'