Kitap 9
3
If I ever come across them, I’ll learn what they have to say. But when you were a woman, good sir, were you a prophet then too, just as later, or did you learn to be man and prophet at the same time?
3
You see, you know nothing about me, or how I settled a quarrel of the gods, When Zeus and Hera were quarrelling as to whether males or females had more pleasure in life, cf. Ovid. Met. 3, 316. and Hera blinded me, and Zeus consoled me in my misfortune with the gift of prophecy.
3
So you still keep to your falsehoods, Tiresias? That’s just like you prophets; you’re habitual liars.
