Among them arose Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of bird-diviners, who knew the things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before, and who had guided the ships of the Achaeans to Ilios by his own prophetic powers which Phoebus Apollo had bestowed upon him.
τοῖσι δ' ἀνέστη Κάλχας Θεστορίδης οἰωνοπόλων ὄχ' ἄριστος , ὃς ᾔδη τά τ' ἐόντα τά τ' ἐσσόμενα πρό τ' ἐόντα , καὶ νήεσσ' ἡγήσατ' Ἀχαιῶν Ἴλιον εἴσω ἣν διὰ μαντοσύνην , τήν οἱ πόρε Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων ·
ὁ δέ ἀνίστημι Κάλχας Θεστορίδης οἰωνοπόλος ὄχα ἄριστος , ὅς οἶδα ὁ τε εἰμί ὁ τε εἰμί πρό τε εἰμί , καί ναῦς ἡγέομαι Ἀχαιός Ἴλιος εἴσω ἑός διά μαντοσύνη , ὁ ἕ πόρω Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων ·