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[297] θέσφατα … εἰπόντα. Eustath. interprets this of a special prediction made by him, “περὶ παιδοποιίας μαντευσάμενος τῷ Ἰφίκλῳ” (“ἦν γὰρ ἄπαις”), “καὶ ἐπιτυχὼν ἀπελύθη”. The Schol. V. refers it to the fact of the prophet having foretold the fate that would befall him on this enterprise, “εἰδὼς, ἅτε δὴ μάντις, ὅτι ἁλώσεται ἐνιαυτόν”. Melampus was supposed by the later logographers to understand the language of all animals; and many stories are told about his questioning of the birds, and his listening to the talk of the worms as they bored through the beam of his chamber.

The phrase Διὸς δ᾽ ἐτελείετο βουλή appears in Il.1. 5.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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