Tiresias

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Tīrĕsĭas, ae, m., = Τειρεσίας.

I A celebrated blind soothsayer of Thebes , Hyg. Fab. 68; 75; Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 115; id. Div. 1, 40, 88; 2, 3, 9; id. N. D. 2, 3, 7; Ov. M. 3, 323; 6, 157; Hor. S. 2, 5, 1; Stat. Th. 10, 589.—

II Transf., for a blind man , Juv. 13, 249.