Question

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.

Answer 1

have a gentle death.

The simile "soft as this hand of mist" describes the seaborne death as gentle/soft; the surrounding "country folk in blessed peace" reinforces a peaceful, gentle passing.