Pausanias Description of Greece 10.10.7

[7] At first, he neither questioned the oracular pronouncement [ manteuma] himself nor consulted any of his interpreters but came to Italy with his ships. But when, although he won victories over the barbarians, he succeeded neither in taking a city [ polis] nor in making himself master of a territory [ khōrā], he he arrived at a recall [ ana-mnēsis] of the oracular pronouncement [ khrēsmos] and thought that the god had foretold an impossibility. For never could rain fall from a clear and cloudless sky. When he was in despair, his wife, who had accompanied him from home, among other endearments placed her husband’s head between her knees and began to pick out the lice. And it chanced that the wife, such was her affection, wept as she saw her husband’s fortunes coming to nothing.