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1. Predictions from known data.5

2. 1 Samuel 28.19. In the Vulgate, the Pythonissa was the witch whom Saul consulted.

3. But the family of Aeneas shall rule over all the lands – even his children’s children, and those that shall be born of them (Virgil, Aeneid, III.97–8, adapted from Homer, Iliad, XX.307–8).

4. In far-off years, there shall come a time when the Ocean shall loosen nature’s bands, and a vast continent shall lie revealed, and Typhis shall disclose new worlds, and Thule shall no longer be the end of the earth (from Medea, 375–9).

5. The story of the dream, and the execution of Polycrates is told by Herodotus, History, III.124–5.