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1. Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, 1.2.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Cicero, On Divination, 1.78, 2.66 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.78. Magnum illud etiam, quod addidit Coelius, eo tempore ipso, cum hoc calamitosum proelium fieret, tantos terrae motus in Liguribus, Gallia compluribusque insulis totaque in Italia factos esse, ut multa oppida conruerint, multis locis labes factae sint terraeque desederint fluminaque in contrarias partes fluxerint atque in amnes mare influxerit. Fiunt certae divinationum coniecturae a peritis. Midae illi Phrygi, cum puer esset, dormienti formicae in os tritici grana congesserunt. Divitissumum fore praedictum est; quod evenit. At Platoni cum in cunis parvulo dormienti apes in labellis consedissent, responsum est singulari illum suavitate orationis fore. Ita futura eloquentia provisa in infante est. 2.66. Atque haec ostentorum genera mirabile nihil habent; quae cum facta sunt, tum ad coniecturam aliqua interpretatione revocantur, ut illa tritici grana in os pueri Midae congesta aut apes, quas dixisti in labris Platonis consedisse pueri, non tam mirabilia sint quam coniecta belle; quae tamen vel ipsa falsa esse vel ea, quae praedicta sunt, fortuito cecidisse potuerunt. De ipso Roscio potest illud quidem esse falsum, ut circumligatus fuerit angui, sed ut in cunis fuerit anguis, non tam est mirum, in Solonio praesertim, ubi ad focum angues nundinari solent. Nam quod haruspices responderint nihil illo clarius, nihil nobilius fore, miror deos immortales histrioni futuro claritatem ostendisse, nullam ostendisse Africano. 1.78. Coelius has added the further notable fact that, at the very time this disastrous battle was going on, earthquakes of such violence occurred in Liguria, in Gaul, on several islands, and in every part of Italy, that a large number of towns were destroyed, landslips took place in many regions, the earth sank, rivers flowed upstream, and the sea invaded their channels.[36] Trustworthy conjectures in divining are made by experts. For instance, when Midas, the famous king of Phrygia, was a child, ants filled his mouth with grains of wheat as he slept. It was predicted that he would be a very wealthy man; and so it turned out. Again, while Plato was an infant, asleep in his cradle, bees settled on his lips and this was interpreted to mean that he would have a rare sweetness of speech. Hence in his infancy his future eloquence was foreseen. 2.66. There is nothing remarkable about the so‑called portents of the kind just mentioned; but after they have happened they are brought within the field of prophecy by some interpretation Take, for example, your stories of the grains of wheat heaped into the mouth of Midas when a boy, and of the bees which settled on the lips of Plato, when he was a child — they are more remarkable as guesses than as real prophecies. Besides, the incidents may have been fictitious; if not, then the fulfilment of the prophecy may have been accidental. As to that incident about Roscius it may, of course, be untrue that a snake coiled itself around him; but it is not so surprising that a snake was in his cradle — especially in Solonium where snakes are attracted in large numbers by the heat of the fireplaces. As to your statement that the soothsayers prophesied a career of unrivalled brilliancy for Roscius, it is a strange thing to me that the immortal gods foretold the glory of a future actor and did not foretell that of Africanus!
3. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 1.114 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.114. simili precatione praec. X (12 prec. V) Trophonius et Agamedes usi dicuntur; qui cum Apollini apolloni G apollin o K 1 Delphis templum exaedificavissent, exedificavissent RK (-et) venerantes verantes V 1 deum petiverunt mercedem mercedem V non parvam quidem operis et laboris sui: nihil certi, sed quod esset optimum homini. quibus Apollo se id daturum ostendit post eius diei die die K 1 diem tertium; qui ut inluxit, mortui sunt reperti. iudicavisse deum dicunt, et eum quidem deum, cui reliqui dii concessissent, ut praeter ceteros divinaret. adfertur etiam de Sileno fabella quaedam; qui cum a Mida captus esset, hoc ei muneris pro sua missione dedisse scribitur: docuisse regem non nasci homini longe optimum esse, proximum autem quam primum mori.
4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.90-11.93 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.18 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.4.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.4.5. The greater number of the Gauls crossed over to Asia by ship and plundered its coasts. Some time after, the inhabitants of Pergamus, that was called of old Teuthrania, drove the Gauls into it from the sea. Now this people occupied the country on the farther side of the river Sangarius capturing Ancyra, a city of the Phrygians, which Midas son of Gordius had founded in former time. And the anchor, which Midas found, A legend invented to explain the name “ Ancyra,” which means anchor. was even as late as my time in the sanctuary of Zeus, as well as a spring called the Spring of Midas, water from which they say Midas mixed with wine to capture Silenus. Well then, the Pergameni took Ancyra and Pessinus which lies under Mount Agdistis, where they say that Attis lies buried.
7. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 6.27 (2nd cent. CE

6.27. After passing the cataracts they halted in a village of the Ethiopians of no great size, and they were dining, towards the evening, mingling in their conversation the grave with the gay, when all on a sudden they heard the women of the village screaming and calling to one another to join in the pursuit and catch the thing; and they also summoned their husbands to help them in the matter. And the latter caught up sticks and stones and anything which came handy, and called upon one another to avenge the insult to their wives. And it appears that for ten months the ghost of a satyr had been haunting the village, who was mad after the women and was said to have killed two of them to whom he was supposed to be specially attached. The companions, then, of Apollonius were frightened out of their wits till Apollonius said: You need not be afraid, for it's only a satyr that is running amuck here. Yes, by Zeus, said Nilus, it's the one that we naked sages have found insulting us for a long time past and we could never stop his jumps and leaps. But, said Apollonius, I have a remedy against these hell-hounds, which Midas is said once to have employed; for Midas himself had some of the blood of satyrs in his veins, as was clear from the shape of his ears; and a satyr once, trespassing on his kinship with Midas, made merry at the expense of his ears, not only singing about them, but piping about them. Well, Midas, I understand, had heard from his mother that when a satyr is overcome by wine he falls asleep, and at such times comes to his senses and will make friends with you; so he mixed wine which he had in his palace in a fountain and let the satyr get at it, and the latter drank it up and was overcome. And to show that the story is true, let us go to the head man of the village, and if the villagers have any wine, we will mix it with water for the satyr and he will share the fate of Midas' satyr. They thought it a good plan, so he poured four Egyptian jars of wine into the trough out of which the village cattle drank, and then called the satyr by means of some secret rebuke or threat; and though as yet the latter was not visible, the wine sensibly diminished as if it was being drunk up. And when it was quite finished, Apollonius said: Let us make peace with the satyr, for he is fast asleep. And with these words he led the villagers to the cave of the nymphs, which was not quite a furlong away from the village; and he showed them a satyr lying fast asleep in it, but he told them not to hit him or abuse him, For, he said, his nonsense is stopped for ever. Such was this exploit of Apollonius, and, by heavens, we may call it not an incidental work in passing, but a masterwork of his passing by [ 1]; and if you read the sage's epistle, in which he wrote to an insolent young man that he had sobered even a satyr demon in Ethiopia, you will perforce call to mind the above story. But we must not disbelieve that satyrs both exist and are susceptible to the passion of love; for I knew a youth of my own age in Lemnos whose mother was said to be visited by a satyr, as he well might to judge by this story; for he was represented as wearing in his back a fawn-skin that exactly fitted him, the front paws of which were drawn around his neck and fastened over his chest. But I must not go further into this subject; but, anyhow, credit is due as much to experience of facts as it is to myself.
8. Tertullian, On The Soul, 2.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)



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alexander iii, the great, gordian knot Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
alexander iii, the great, marble head, from sagalassos Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
alexander iii, the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
alexander the great Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
amphitrite Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
antigonos monophthalmos the one-eyed, diadoch Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
aphrodite Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
apollo Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
arrian Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
athena Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
atizyes, satrap Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
babylon/babylonians Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
bacchants de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
bona dea de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
cappadocia/cappadocians, alexander the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
caria/carians, alexander the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
cilicia/cilicians, anabasis of alexander the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
coins de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
colcheans Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
darius iii, persian king Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
daskyleion satraps seat Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
demeter Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
dionysus Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
eleusinian, orpheus, orphic, samothracian, mater de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
eleusinian, orpheus, orphic, samothracian de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
eros Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
gordian knot Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213; Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
gordius Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
graces Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
hephaestus Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
hermes Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
herodotus Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
heroon, in sagalassos Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
initiates de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
jupiter Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
kelainai Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
lake askanios in phrygia Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
life de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
lycia/lycians, campaign of alexander the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
macedonia/macedonians, conquest of asia minor Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
macedonians Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
memnon of rhodes, mercenary leader Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
mercenaries' Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
midas, phrygian king Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
midas Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213; de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
muses Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
myth de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
nearchos, admiral of alexander the great Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
neolithic/chalcolithic age (ca. Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
nereids Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
odryssus de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
orpheus de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
orphic, see mystery cults de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
pamphylia/pamphylians, greek settlement, alexanders campaign Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
peitho Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
phtygians Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
poseidon Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
sabiktas, satrap Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
samothracian mysteries de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
sardeis Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
satyrs de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
silenus de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
termessos/termessians Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World (2019) 177
thrace de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
thucydides Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213
wine, wine-god de Jáuregui, Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) 265
xenophon Baumann and Liotsakis, Reading History in the Roman Empire (2022) 213