He sees what is, and was, and is to come."
Virgil.
From his knowledge of futurity, mankind are said to have received the greatest benefits.
————————"Blue Proteus dwells,
Great Neptune's prophet, who the ocean quells;
He in a glittering chariot courses o'er
The foaming waves, him all the nymphs adore,
Old Nereus too, because he all things knows,
The past, the present, and the future shows;
So Neptune pleased who Proteus thus inspired,