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Euripides, Hippolytus 346

I’m no soothsayer with the power to clearly discern the unseen.

οὐ μάντις εἰμὶ τἀφανῆ γνῶναι σαφῶς.

This same sentiment was expressed more humorously by the slave Davos in Terence’s Andria, line 194: Davo’ sum, non Oedipus!” “I’m just Davos, not Oedipus!”

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