TR1.64 Nŏw fél ĭt só thăt ín thĕ tówn thĕr wás
TR1.65 Dwĕllýnge ă lórd ŏf grét ăuctórĭté,
TR1.66 Ă grét dĕvýn, thăt clépĭd wás Călkás,
TR1.67 Thăt ín scĭéncĕ só ĕxpért wăs thăt hé
TR1.68 Knĕw wél thăt Tróiĕ shólde dĕstróiĕd bé,
TR1.69 By̆ ánswĕre óf hĭs gód, thăt híghtĕ thús:
TR1.70 Dăun Phébŭs ór Ăppóllŏ Délphĭcús.

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• Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
• English translations (Windeatt: 1998): Now it so happened that there was living in the town a lord of great authority, a great soothsayer called Calchas, who was so expert in his learned art that from the replies of his god, who was called Lord Phoebus or Delphic Apollo, he knew that Troy should be destroyed.
• Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): さて、たまたまその町に大きな権力の持ち主、カルカスと呼ばれる偉大な預言者が住んでいた。彼は殊のほか学があったので、フォイボス殿つまりアポロン・デルフィクスと、このように呼ばれた彼の崇める神の託宣によって、いずれトロイアは破壊されるということを知った。
• Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 这时城中住着一位煞有权能的先知，名叫卡尔卡斯他智慧过人，从他所敬拜的神灵费白斯，又名阿波罗那里得到昭示，他知道特罗亚要遭受破毁。

Word Information

• Etymology: OF&L
• Addresser: Narrator
• Addressee: N/A
• Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
• Counterpart in its source (Fil): 1.8
• Noun(s) (NPs) modified: human beings (male: Calchas)
• Attributive/ Predicative: predicative

Information in Previous Studies

• OED: (Quoted) 2. a. Trained by experience or practice, skilled, skilful. Const. at, in, †intil, †of, to with infinitive (s.v. expert, adj.1)
• MED: Not quoted

• Commented in other previous works:
• Windeatt (2003: 6): expert: learned, skilled
• Fisher (1989): N/A
• Benson (1987): N/A
• Davis et al. (1979): (Quoted) ~ in: learned, skilled (in) (s.v. expert, adj.)
• Donaldson (1975): N/A
• Baugh (1963): N/A

Possible Definitions

learned, skilled

Comments from the Editor

Calchas receives Apollo’s revelation that Troy will be ruined by the Greek army. He subsequently visits the Greek camp secretly, leaving his only daughter behind.