But happening to find near Clarus a seer greater than himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, Teiresias' daughter, he died of vexation.
For this Hera was angry and blinded him, but Zeus gave him the seer's power.
`And now there is no seer among mortal men such as would know the mind of Zeus who holds the aegis.'
OEDIPUS Teiresias, seer who comprehendest all, Lore of the wise and hidden mysteries, High things of heaven and low things of the earth, Thou knowest, though thy blinded eyes see naught, What plague infects our city; and we turn To thee, O seer, our one defense and shield.
OEDIPUS Vile slanderer, thou blurtest forth these taunts, And think'st forsooth as seer to go scot free.
CHORUS To us it seems that both the seer and thou, O Oedipus, have spoken angry words.
2) Sore perplexed am I by the words of the master seer. Are they true, are they false?
At last a
seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him.
And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and
seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.
But most people say that these visions arose from the thought -- you will not understand me -- from the brain; from the perturbed angularity of the
Seer.
It was a time of visions and miracles, while
seers and prophetesses were legion.
"If thou be changed into this shape by the will of God," say the
seers to the enchanted, in the wise Arabian stories, "then remain so!