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Theban prophet Teiresias.’
‘The men were broken-hearted as they heard me, and
threw themselves on the ground groaning and tearing their
hair, but they did not mend matters by crying. When we
reached the sea shore, weeping and lamenting our fate,
Circe brought the ram and the ewe, and we made them fast
hard by the ship. She passed through the midst of us with-
out our knowing it, for who can see the comings and goings
of a god, if the god does not wish to be seen?

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