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Teotihuacanas, Toltecs, Xochimilcas, Chalcas and Tlahuicas were all forebears of the present day inhabitants of Morelos.
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Iphigenia, now ready to be sacrificed, when he had painted Chalcas mourning, Ulysses sad, but most sorrowful Menelaus; and showed all his art in expressing a variety of affections, he covered the maid's father Agamemnon's head with a veil, and left it to every spectator to conceive what he would himself; for that true passion and sorrow in summo gradu, such as his was, could not by any art be deciphered.
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Teotihuacanas, Toltecs, Xochimilcas, Chalcas and Tlahuicas were all forebears of the present day inhabitants of Morelos.
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They have pretended that general Providence does not immediately interfere with the affairs of particular individuals; that it governs all by universal laws; that Thersites and Achilles were equal before it, and that neither Chalcas nor Talthybius ever had versatile or congruous graces.
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But when the soothsayer Chalcas had told him that he feared the wrath of the most potent among the Grecians, after an oath that while he lived no man should lay violent hands on him, he adds, but not with like wisdom and moderation,
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Now this speech of Nestor tended to the rectifying of what he had before done amiss; but that of Chalcas, only to accuse and disparage him.
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For Chalcas very unseasonably makes no scruple to traduce the king before the people, as having been the cause of the pestilence that was befallen them.
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Achilles calls a council, and encourages Chalcas to declare the cause of it; who attributes it to the refusal of Chryseis.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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At it Chalcas the seer before revealing the truth obtained the promise of Achilles 'protection; when Agamemnon learned that he was to ransom his captive, his anger burst out against the seer and he demanded another prize in return.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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Striking the same ominous note as Chalcas did, she continues:
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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