Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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So, they get a seer who goes and is persuaded to try to find out what's happening.

所以他们派一个先知,来占卜到底是什么原因

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And he finally does ascertain that Apollo is angry with the Greeks because Agamemnon took a maiden from her father, and that father was a priest of Apollo.

占卜的结果是,阿波罗对希腊人发怒了,因为阿伽门农抢了自己父亲的女仆,而他父亲是阿波罗的大祭司

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