Calchas

British  

/ ˈkælkæs /

noun

1. Greek myth a soothsayer who assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War

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Example Sentences

When Calchas declared that Chryseis must be given back to her father, he had all the chiefs behind him and Agamemnon, greatly angered, was obliged to agree.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Their prophet Calchas told them that he had no message from the gods for them, but that there was a man among the Trojans who knew the future, the prophet Helenus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

At last the soothsayer, Calchas, declared that the gods had spoken to him: Artemis was angry.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Then the prophet Calchas stood up and said he knew why the god was angry, but that he was afraid to speak unless Achilles would guarantee his safety.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Calchas ought to have told the Greeks not to desert Philoctetes at the time, if he was so important that Troy, as the prophet now said, could not be taken without him.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Lang, Andrew