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Herodotus, Histories, 6.57.4
nan They keep all oracles that are given, though the Pythians also know them. The kings alone judge cases concerning the rightful possessor of an unwedded heiress, if her father has not betrothed her, and cases concerning public roads.

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1. Aristophanes, Birds, 982, 962 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 962. ὡς ἔστι Βάκιδος χρησμὸς ἄντικρυς λέγων
2. Aristophanes, Knights, 123 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 123. ὦ Βάκι. τί ἔστι; δὸς τὸ ποτήριον ταχύ.
3. Aristophanes, Peace, 1095, 1071 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1071. μηδὲ Βάκις θνητούς, μηδ' αὖ νύμφαι Βάκιν αὐτὸν—
4. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1032-1035, 1031 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1031. ὡς ὠφέλιμοι τῶν ποιητῶν οἱ γενναῖοι γεγένηνται.
5. Herodotus, Histories, 5.56.2, 5.90.2, 7.6.3, 8.20, 8.77, 8.77.2, 8.96, 8.96.2, 9.43, 9.43.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 5.56.2. As soon as it was day, he imparted this to the interpreters of dreams, and presently putting the vision from his mind, he led the procession in which he met his death. 5.90.2. Furthermore, they were spurred on by the oracles which foretold that many deeds of enmity would be perpetrated against them by the Athenians. Previously they had had no knowledge of these oracles but now Cleomenes brought them to Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians learned their contents. It was from the Athenian acropolis that Cleomenes took the oracles, which had been in the possession of the Pisistratidae earlier. When they were exiled, they left them in the temple from where they were retrieved by Cleomenes. 7.6.3. They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus. They had reconciled their previous hostility with him; Onomacritus had been banished from Athens by Pisistratus' son Hipparchus, when he was caught by Lasus of Hermione in the act of interpolating into the writings of Musaeus an oracle showing that the islands off Lemnos would disappear into the sea. 8.20. Now the Euboeans had neglected the oracle of Bacis, believing it to be empty of meaning, and neither by carrying away nor by bringing in anything had they shown that they feared an enemy's coming. In so doing they were the cause of their own destruction, ,for Bacis' oracle concerning this matter runs as follows quote type="oracle" l met="dact"When a strange-tongued man casts a yoke of papyrus on the waves, /l lThen take care to keep bleating goats far from the coasts of Euboea /l /quote To these verses the Euboeans gave no heed; but in the evils then present and soon to come they suffered the greatest calamity. 8.77. I cannot say against oracles that they are not true, and I do not wish to try to discredit them when they speak plainly. Look at the following matter: quote type="oracle" l met="dact"When the sacred headland of golden-sworded Artemis and Cynosura by the sea they bridge with ships, /l lAfter sacking shiny Athens in mad hope, /l lDivine Justice will extinguish mighty Greed the son of Insolence /l lLusting terribly, thinking to devour all. /l /quote , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Bronze will come together with bronze, and Ares /l lWill redden the sea with blood. To Hellas the day of freedom /l lFar-seeing Zeus and august Victory will bring. /l /quote Considering this, I dare to say nothing against Bacis concerning oracles when he speaks so plainly, nor will I consent to it by others. 8.77.2. quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Bronze will come together with bronze, and Ares /l lWill redden the sea with blood. To Hellas the day of freedom /l lFar-seeing Zeus and august Victory will bring. /l /quote Considering this, I dare to say nothing against Bacis concerning oracles when he speaks so plainly, nor will I consent to it by others. 8.96. When the battle was broken off, the Hellenes towed to Salamis as many of the wrecks as were still there and kept ready for another battle, supposing that the king could still make use of his surviving ships. ,A west wind had caught many of the wrecks and carried them to the shore in Attica called Colias. Thus not only was all the rest of the oracle fulfilled which Bacis and Musaeus had spoken about this battle, but also what had been said many years before this in an oracle by Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, concerning the wrecks carried to shore there. Its meaning had eluded all the Hellenes: quote type="oracle" l met="dact"The Colian women will cook with oars. /l lBut this was to happen after the king had marched away. /l /quote 8.96.2. A west wind had caught many of the wrecks and carried them to the shore in Attica called Colias. Thus not only was all the rest of the oracle fulfilled which Bacis and Musaeus had spoken about this battle, but also what had been said many years before this in an oracle by Lysistratus, an Athenian soothsayer, concerning the wrecks carried to shore there. Its meaning had eluded all the Hellenes: quote type="oracle" l met="dact"The Colian women will cook with oars. /l lBut this was to happen after the king had marched away. /l /quote 9.43. Now for this prophecy, which Mardonius said was spoken of the Persians, I know it to have been made concerning not them but the Illyrians and the army of the Enchelees. There is, however, a prophecy made by Bacis concerning this battle: , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"By Thermodon's stream and the grass-grown banks of Asopus, /l lWill be a gathering of Greeks for fight and the ring of the barbarian's war-cry; /l lMany a Median archer, by death untimely overtaken will fall /l lThere in the battle when the day of his doom is upon him. /l /quote I know that these verses and others very similar to them from Musaeus referred to the Persians. As for the river Thermodon, it flows between Tanagra and Glisas. 9.43.2. quote type="oracle" l met="dact"By Thermodon's stream and the grass-grown banks of Asopus, /l lWill be a gathering of Greeks for fight and the ring of the barbarian's war-cry; /l lMany a Median archer, by death untimely overtaken will fall /l lThere in the battle when the day of his doom is upon him. /l /quote I know that these verses and others very similar to them from Musaeus referred to the Persians. As for the river Thermodon, it flows between Tanagra and Glisas.
6. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 364b. and disregard those who are in any way weak or poor, even while admitting that they are better men than the others. But the strangest of all these speeches are the things they say about the gods and virtue, how so it is that the gods themselves assign to many good men misfortunes and an evil life but to their opposites a contrary lot; and begging priests and soothsayers go to rich men’s doors and make them believe that they by means of sacrifices and incantations have accumulated a treasure of power from the gods that can expiate and cure with pleasurable festival
7. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 6.54.5, 8.1.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 6.54.5. Indeed, generally their government was not grievous to the multitude, or in any way odious in practice; and these tyrants cultivated wisdom and virtue as much as any, and without exacting from the Athenians more than a twentieth of their income, splendidly adorned their city, and carried on their wars, and provided sacrifices for the temples. 8.1.1. Such were the events in Sicily . When the news was brought to Athens, for a long while they disbelieved even the most respectable of the soldiers who had themselves escaped from the scene of action and clearly reported the matter, a destruction so complete not being thought credible. When the conviction was forced upon them, they were angry with the orators who had joined in promoting the expedition, just as if they had not themselves voted it, and were enraged also with the reciters of oracles and soothsayers, and all other omenmongers of the time who had encouraged them to hope that they should conquer Sicily .
8. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.66.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.66.5.  Consequently the Cadmeans left the city, as the seer had counselled them to do, and gathered for refuge by month in a place in Boeotia called Tilphossaeum. Thereupon the Epigoni took the city and sacked it, and capturing Daphnê, the daughter of Teiresias, they dedicated her, in accordance with a certain vow, to the service of the temple at Delphi as an offering to the god of the first-fruits of the booty.
9. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.27.4, 10.12.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.27.4. Epaminondas was most strongly drawn to the foundation by the oracles of Bacis, who was inspired by the Nymphs and left prophecies regarding others of the Greeks as well as the return of the Messenians: Then indeed shall the bright bloom of Sparta perish and Messene again shall be inhabited for all time. I have discovered that Bacis also told in what manner Eira would be captured, and this too is one of his oracles: The men of Messene o'ercome by the thunder's roll and spouting rain. 10.12.2. Herophile was younger than she was, but nevertheless she too was clearly born before the Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to be the ruin of Asia and of Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy . The Delians remember also a hymn this woman composed to Apollo. In her poem she calls herself not only Herophile but also Artemis, and the wedded wife of Apollo, saying too sometimes that she is his sister, and sometimes that she is his daughter.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
amphilytos	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 250
areopagos,books of oracles	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 250
aristophanes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
athens	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
bakis	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
christianity	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
chrêsmologos	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183, 188
cleomenes of sparta	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
cyprus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
delphi	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
dillery,john	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183, 188
divination,and authority	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183, 188
divination	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
epimenides	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183
herodotus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216; Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
hipparchos	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 250
hipparchus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
judaism	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
kleomenes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
language,mousaios	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 250
lapis lazuli	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
lloyd,g.e.r.	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183
mania'	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 183
mania	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
musaeus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
nagy,gregory	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
nymphs	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
onomakritos	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 250
oracles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
pausanias	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
pisistratids	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
pisistratus/pisistratids	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
roman imperial period	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
roman sibylline books	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
salvation	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
sibyl	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
sosicles	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 188
sparta	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216
women	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 216