And there with his soul in a turmoil of wonder and rapture past all bearing he stood + 

Beholding the tokens of giant strength and the child’s unearthly-aweless mood: + 

For to falsehood the tale of the messengers’ telling by the Gods had been turned. Then one near-dwelling + 

He summoned, Teiresias ever-unerring seer, the prophet of Zeus most high; + 

And to him and to all his host the child’s life-fortune did that seer prophesy. + 