your return, and propitiate heaven by the life of an Argive!”
Soon as the news reached the public ear, every
mind was cowed, and a cold shudder thrilled the depth of
every heart. For whom has Fate a summons? Whom does 35
Apollo demand as his prey? And now the Ithacan, with
boisterous vehemence, drags forward the prophet Calchas,
insists on knowing what that announcement of heaven’s
will may mean; and many even then were the prophetic
mouths that warned me of the trickster’s cruel villany,
and many the eyes that silently foresaw the future. Ten