ABSTRACT
APOLLO can hardly have foreseen all the consequences of endowing Cassandra with prophetic power. He can hardly have foreseen, for example, that the artful hussy would refuse to keep her part of the bargain, and would cheat him of his quid pro quo. And he may not have found it quite easy to dismiss from his mind all the unpleasant predictions which, no doubt, she proceeded to make about him such as that he should lose his popularity as a god, fall from his divine estate, and be turned into a butterfly. 1
