All 11 Uses
prophecy
in
The Odyssey
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- Wait,
I'll make you a prophecy, one the immortal gods
have planted in my mind—it will come true, I think,
though I am hardly a seer or know the flights of birds.†p. 84.1prophecy = prediction of the future - I no longer trust in rumors—rumors from the blue—
nor bother with any prophecy, when mother calls
some wizard into the house to ask him questions.†p. 91.2 - I myself
am no stranger to prophecy—I can see it now!†p. 98.8 - We'd have escaped your droning prophecies then
and the way you've loosed the dogs of this boy's anger—
your eyes peeled for a house-gift he might give you.†p. 99.3prophecies = predictions of the future - Here's my prophecy, bound to come to pass.†
p. 99.4prophecy = prediction of the future
- Nor do we balk, old man, at the prophecies you mouth—
they'll come to grief, they'll make us hate you more.†p. 99.8 *prophecies = predictions of the future - So I vaunted and he groaned back in answer,
'Oh no, no—that prophecy years ago ...
it all comes home to me with a vengeance now!†p. 227.5prophecy = prediction of the future - And with those words,
now that his prophecies had closed, the awesome shade
of lord Tiresias strode back to the House of Death.†p. 254.4prophecies = predictions of the future - So I warned my shipmates gravely, sick at heart,
'Listen to me, my comrades, brothers in hardship,
let me tell you the dire prophecies of Tiresias
and Aeaean Circe too: time and again they told me
to shun this island of the Sun, the joy of man.†p. 279.8 - They might well wonder, blind to what had happened,
till Alcinous rose and made things all too clear:
"Oh no—my father's prophecy years ago ...
it all comes home to me with a vengeance now!†p. 292.2prophecy = prediction of the future - His reassurance stirred the queen to her depths
and the godlike seer Theoclymenus added firmly,
"Noble lady, wife of Laertes' son, Odysseus,
Menelaus can have no perfect revelations;
mark my words—I will make you a prophecy,
quite precise, and I'll hold nothing back.†p. 359.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)