Nay, nor be known of any, till I hear

Such tidings as bespeak my coming well.

Ath. O brave! thy wary mind has gone before,

The way I would have led it: thou art as ever

Fore-reckoner with chance, to take thy stand

Armed at all points.

Ul.This fear, goddess, I learnt

Of blind Tiresias, when at Circe’s bidding

I sailed for south beyond the coasts of men,

To dark Cimmerian cloud-land, and I saw