A sign, saying, or image that anticipates, sometimes only for the rereader, something that will happen later in the work.
In the Odyssey
for no one among men is entirely without a name, neither bad nor good, from the time they are born, but parents give a name to all of them, once they have begotten them.
The claim that no one is entirely without a name anticipates the episode of the Cyclops, in which Odysseus will say his name is No One. What seems only a rule of hospitality takes on meaning when the reader reaches that false name.
Book VIII: The games of the Phaeacians, Alcinous
but if it is his fate to see his own again and reach the well-built house and his native land, let him arrive late and badly, having lost all his companions, on another man's ship, and let him find troubles at home.
Book IX: The Cyclops, Polyphemus
If you leave them unharmed and think of the return, you will still reach Ithaca, though suffering evils; but if you harm them, then I foretell ruin for the ship and for the companions; and you yourself, if you escape, will return late and badly, having lost all your companions.
Book XII: The Sirens, Scylla, and the cattle of the Sun, Circe
as when an eagle seized the goose raised in the house, coming from the mountain where its kin and its offspring are, so Odysseus, after suffering many evils and wandering much, will return home and take vengeance.
Book XV: Telemachus's return, Helen
courage, daughter of Icarius, famed from afar; this is not a dream, but a good vision, which will be fulfilled for you. The geese are the suitors; and I, who was before the eagle, have now come back, your husband, who will bring a shameful fate on all the suitors.
Book XIX: Penelope and the scar, the dream eagle, in Penelope's voice
the lament burns, the faces are wet with tears; the walls and the fine rafters are spattered with blood; the portico is full of shapes, the courtyard too, shapes running toward Erebus under the gloom; the sun has vanished from the sky, and a foul mist has spread.
Book XX: The omens, the seer Theoclymenus
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