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Calchas
/ ˈkælkæs /
noun
- Greek myth a soothsayer who assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War
Example Sentences
No polls, no “adjustments,” no sampling errors, just the same tried and true liver-based approach that has been successfully predicting the outcome of United States presidential elections since Calchas talked Agamemnon into murdering his own daughter.
Their prophet Calchas told them that he had no message from the gods for them, but that there was a man among the Trojans who knew the future, the prophet Helenus.
Then the prophet Calchas stood up and said he knew why the god was angry, but that he was afraid to speak unless Achilles would guarantee his safety.
At last the soothsayer, Calchas, declared that the gods had spoken to him: Artemis was angry.
When Calchas declared that Chryseis must be given back to her father, he had all the chiefs behind him and Agamemnon, greatly angered, was obliged to agree.
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