"Spae" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regulating the repetition of epic formulae. It is tempting, indeed, to criticise Mr. Monro's list of twenty-four Odyssean "borrowings," and we might arrive at some curious results. For example, we could show that the Klothes, the spinning women who "spae" the fate of each new-born child, are not later, but, as less abstract, are if anything earlier than "the simple Aisa of the Iliad." [Footnote: Odyssey, VII. 197; Iliad, xx. 127.] But our proof would require an excursion into the beliefs of savage and barbaric ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... baker, "dinna spae ill-fortune! And never despise a youngster for a random start. It's the blood ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown |
