Apollodorus files this tabu among the explanations of Tiresias's blindness: some say "he was blinded by the gods because he revealed their secrets to men" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI]. The served page then stacks the rival counts. In Pherecydes's version the secret was visual — Tiresias "saw the goddess stark naked", and Athena's hands closed his eyes [ibid.]. Callimachus, quoted in the editor's margin, turns it into statute: the laws of the gods "inflicted the penalty of blindness on anyone who beheld an immortal" without consent [ibid., editor's note]. A further note records the tradition that the blindness was "a punishment inflicted on him by Hera (Juno)" for testifying too candidly when the gods put their bedroom dispute to the one witness who had lived on both sides [ibid., editor's note]. The versions disagree about everything except the offence's shape: a mortal crossed the line between what gods know and what mortals may say — by tongue, by eye, or by sworn answer — and paid at the organ of trespass. The compensations (prophecy, bird-speech, the staff) are filed at their own addresses; this page sets the tariff.