A blind king of Thrace, who had the gift of prophecy. Whenever he wanted to eat, the Harpies came and took away or defiled his food.
“Blind Thamʹyris, and blind Mœonidēs,
And Tireʹsias, and Phiʹneus, prophets old.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 34.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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