10. To start with, their Indian origin had over the years been obscured by legends of Egyptian origin and when they reached Greece many centuries ago they were wrongly lumped together with the Atsinganos, meaning "untouched or untouchable", who were a sect of soothsayers and magicians from Asia Minor. (The word "gypsies" is a corrupted form for "Egyptian" and Tsigane derives from Atsinganos.) But the Roma are clearly of Indian origin, as confirmed by linguists who found in the Romani language unmistakable similarities with Sanskrit.

- [gasps] that boy's a soothsayer.

You're dangerous company, Soothsayer.

Hannibal utilized stargazers and soothsayers.

I want to see the Soothsayer. Where is he?

It was given to me by a Verron soothsayer.

That's why the soothsayers can't see the volcano.

But the soothsayers, they all consume the vapours, yeah?

Alexas, sweet Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen?

You think I like being a soothsayer and watching you live out your Jerry Springer fate?

But then the soothsayers, the augurs, the haruspex, all of them, they saw the truth, again and again.