tiresias in English

noun
1
a blind Theban prophet, so wise that even his ghost had its wits and was not a mere phantom. Legends account variously for his wisdom and blindness; some stories hold also that he spent seven years as a woman.

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1. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of Auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary …

2. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of Auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary …

3. Pliny the Younger attributes the invention of Auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary culture

4. [citation needed] Pliny the Younger attributes the invention of Auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary culture