All 4 Uses of
prophesy
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- From rich Apaesus and Adrestia's towers, High Teree's summits, and Pityea's bowers; From these the congregated troops obey Young Amphius and Adrastus' equal sway; Old Merops' sons; whom, skill'd in fates to come, The sire forewarn'd, and prophesied their doom: Fate urged them on!†
Book 2 *prophesied = predicted or revealed
- Of all heaven's oracles believed in vain, But most of Thetis must her son complain; By Phoebus' darts she prophesied my fall, In glorious arms before the Trojan wall.†
Book 21
- Achilles fell before Troy, by the hand of Paris, by the shot of an arrow in his heel, as Hector had prophesied at his death, lib. xxii.†
Book Cncl.
- One of them is miraculously endued with voice, and inspired to prophesy his fate: but the hero, not astonished by that prodigy, rushes with fury to the combat.†
Book 19
Definition:
predict or reveal -- especially through, or as if through, divine inspiration