a famous soothsayer who followed the Greek army to Troy. He foretold that the siege would last ten years; and that the fleet, which was detained in the port of Aulis by contrary winds, would not sail till Agamemnon's daughter had been sacrificed to Diana. After the taking of Troy he retired to Colophon, where (as an oracle had foretold) he died of grief because he was unable to divine certain events which the soothsayer Mopsus had predicted.