The generous feast?
Manto: With sudden gleam it leaped
Into the air, and quickly fell again.
Tiresias: And did the sacred fire burn bright and clear,
And point its gleaming summit straight to heaven,310
And, spreading outward, to the breeze unfold;
Or crawl, with course uncertain, near the ground,
And, flickering, die away in gloomy smoke?
Manto: Not one appearance only had the flame.
As when the tempest-bringing Iris spreads