FROM SAMUEL BUTLER’S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD

(COPIED FROM WEBSITE - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/iliad.html)

CALCHAS

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. He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilius, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him.

BOOK 1