All 4 Uses of
prescient
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- The wondering rivals gaze, with cares oppress'd, And chilling horrors freeze in every breast, Till big with knowledge of approaching woes, The prince of augurs, Halitherses, rose: Prescient he view'd the aerial tracks, and drew A sure presage from every wing that flew.†
Book 2 *
- "She ceased; and suppliant thus I made reply: 'O goddess I on thy aid my hopes rely; Dictate propitious to my duteous ear, What arts can captivate the changeful seer; For perilous the assay, unheard the toil, To elude the prescience of a god by guile.'†
Book 4
- Fair hope revives; and eager I address'd The prescient godhead to reveal the rest: 'The doom decreed of those disastrous two I've heard with pain, but oh! the tale pursue; What third brave son of Mars the Fates constrain To roam the howling desert of the main; Or, in eternal shade of cold he lies, Provoke new sorrows from these grateful eyes.'†
Book 4
- To fly these shores the prescient Theban shade And Circe warn!†
Book 12
Definition:
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(prescient) knowing (or at least expecting) what will happen before it happens