Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Calchas? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
They recall the prophesy that a soothsayer named Calchas had once made about the future.
How fate is set is unknown, but it is told by the Fates and by Zeus through sending omens to seers such as Calchas.
Examples from Classical Literature
And the seer Calchas will to his cost consecrate the sacrificial cakes and lustral waters.
With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak.
Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven.
Placed in an envelope, and addressed to Fouquet, it had not even been divined by Planchet, who in divination was equal to Calchas or the Pythian Apollo.
