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Tiresias

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A long-lived blind soothsayer who participated over seven generations in the legendary history of (the Greek city) Thebes, noted also for being transformed into a woman for seven years, so being symbolic of androgyny.

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Tiresias

Those in the know say the only one... to be believed is Tiresias.
Van a tener razón los que dicen... que al único que se le puede creer es a Tiresias.

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Grateful he took it so well, I went to do my change for the seer Tiresias.
Aliviado de comprobar que se lo tomaba tan bien, fui a cambiarme para el papel del vidente Tiresias.

I used to imagine that I was Tiresias, thought Lucius, but the mantic power was never given.
A veces me imaginé que era Tiresias, pensó Lucius, pero nunca me fue dado el poder adivinatorio.

Tiresia added another head to the trophy room in her mind.
Tiresia acababa de añadir una nueva cabeza a la sala de trofeos que guardaba en su memoria.

MOYERS: You know the curious old legend of the blind prophet Tiresias?
MOYERS: ¿Conoces esa curiosa leyenda del profeta ciego, Tiresias?

The vase of Tiresias revealed the continuation of the Odyssey!
¡La vasija de oro de Tiresias era la continuación de la Odisea!

It is a suggestive enmity, a twin of Tiresias’s promise of a final ease in the distant north.
Se trata de una animosidad sugerente, gemela de la promesa de Tiresias de un sosiego final en el distante norte.

His initial resistance to Tiresias’ report of them is petulant and deluded.
Su resistencia inicial a los informes que le presenta Tiresias[125] al respecto es petulante e ilusa.

Remember the caduceus, which in mythoriginated with Tiresias before being given to Hermes.
Recuerda el caduceo que, según el mito, se originó con Tiresias antes de ser dado a Hermes.

‘Listen,’ I said, ‘can you tell me whether Tiresias’ prophecy will come true?
─Escúchame, ¿sabrías decirme si la profecía de Tiresias se cumplirá?

In her canteen in Tiresia, Minmei swooned upon receiving the news.
En su cantina en Tiresia, Minmei desfalleci al recibir la noticia.

Oedipus, Creon, and Tiresias, each taking his cue from the oracle, seek one another's downfall.
Edipo, Creonte, Tiresias, inspirados por el oráculo, intentan eliminarse recíprocamente...

Tiresias, the prophet.
El profeta Tiresias.

There he did as Circe had instructed him, and learnt many things from the ghost of Tiresias.
Allí hizo como Circe le había indicado y aprendió muchas cosas del fantasma de Tiresias.

And Zeus, feeling a certain responsibility, gave Tiresias the gift of prophecy within his blindness.
Y Zeus, que sentía cierta responsabilidad, le dio a Tiresias el don de la profecía dentro de su ceguera.

The figure of Tiresias has been much invoked by fiction writers and poets.
La figura de Tiresias ha sido muy querida por escritores y poetas.

Tiresias has a blind-man mask; one sees through slits between the eyelids.
Tiresias lleva una máscara de ciego; el actor ha de mirar por unas rendijas abiertas entre los párpados.

I was like a lone survivor wandering among the wreckage, like Tiresias in the city of plague.
Era como el superviviente solitario que vaga entre los escombros, como Tiresias en la ciudad de la peste.

Why was it that, when I first saw you, at Woodstock Town End, you gave your alias as ‘Tiresias’?”
¿Por qué, la primera vez que os vi a la salida de la ciudad de Woodstock, dijisteis que vuestro alias era Tiresias?

so they visited a blind seer named Tiresias, who one day was a man, and the next day a woman, and they asked him-her his-her opinion, and Tiresias replied
Por lo que visitaron a un vidente ciego llamado Tiresias, que un día era un hombre, y al siguiente una mujer, y le preguntaron su opinión, y Tiresias respondió que, como mujer ella tenía diez veces más placer

Make libations to the gods, Tiresias.
Haz libaciones a los dioses, Tiresias.

As a woman, Tiresias became a priestess of Hera, married and had children, including Manto.
Como mujer, Tiresias se convirtió en sacerdotisa de Hera, se casó y tuvo hijos, incluyendo a Manto.

"""I read quite a bit when I was in Tiresia."""
"""Leí bastante cuando estuve en Tiresia."""

Unique: nobody ever went through it, even if the Greeks attributed it to Tiresias.
Única, nadie la ha tenido nunca, aunque parece que los griegos se la atribuían a Tiresias.

The truth dwells in his words—“I have the truth within me and you know it,” Tiresias says.
La verdad habita sus palabras: ‘tengo la verdad en mí, tú lo sabes’, dice.

“Give them a common enemy,” said Tiresia.
—Dándoles un enemigo común —contestó Tiresia.