Read the passage from The Odyssey - Teiresias. ‘Then a seaborne death soft as this hand of mist will come upon you when you are wearied out with rich old age, your country folk in blessed peace around you. And all this shall be just as I foretell.’ Teiresias uses a simile to promise Odysseus that he will have a gentle death. die exhausted. have a happy death. die very wealthy.