An old soothsayer met her, and she told how it had befallen her married mate.

O ye higher men, YOUR distress was it that the old soothsayer foretold to me yester-morn,-

The old soothsayer met him.

A few more sentences introduce to us the old soothsayer Tiresias-forwhom, at the instigation of Creon, Oedipus had sent.

One is what an old soothsayer told him: that he would die by fire at sea; the other is his love for this girl.

But the extraordinary part of it is that an illiterate old soothsayer should be considered important enough to be included in an official report.

Chamatevi had been only twenty-three when an old soothsayer identified her to some emissaries from the north as the future queen of the Haripunchai.

He is confronted with Schopenhauer and tempted by the old Soothsayer to commit the sin of pity.