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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 9.2.1

γῆς δὲ τῆς Πλαταιίδος ἐν τῷ Κιθαιρῶνι ὀλίγον τῆς εὐθείας ἐκτραπεῖσιν ἐς δεξιὰ Ὑσιῶν καὶ Ἐρυθρῶν ἐρείπιά ἐστι. πόλεις δέ ποτε τῶν Βοιωτῶν ἦσαν, καὶ νῦν ἔτι ἐν τοῖς ἐρειπίοις τῶν Ὑσιῶν ναός ἐστιν Ἀπόλλωνος ἡμίεργος καὶ φρέαρ ἱερόν· πάλαι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ φρέατος κατὰ τὸν Βοιωτῶν λόγον ἐμαντεύοντο πίνοντες. On Mount Cithaeron, within the territory of Plataea, if you turn off to the right for a little way from the straight road, you reach the ruins of Hysiae and Erythrae. Once they were cities of Boeotia, and even at the present day among the ruins of Hysiae are a half-finished temple of Apollo and a sacred well. According to the Boeotian story oracles were obtained of old from the well by drinking of it.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 336 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 336. Should not be seized – god-sent, it’s better far.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 23.233-23.238 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Herodotus, Histories, 1.188 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.188. Cyrus, then, marched against Nitocris' son, who inherited the name of his father Labynetus and the sovereignty of Assyria. Now when the Great King campaigns, he marches well provided with food and flocks from home; and water from the Choaspes river that flows past Susa is carried with him, the only river from which the king will drink. ,This water of the Choaspes is boiled, and very many four-wheeled wagons drawn by mules carry it in silver vessels, following the king wherever he goes at any time.
4. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 2.232 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Tacitus, Annals, 2.54 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.54.  From Athens he visited Euboea, and crossed over to Lesbos; where Agrippina, in her last confinement, gave birth to Julia. Entering the outskirts of Asia, and the Thracian towns of Perinthus and Byzantium, he then struck through the straits of the Bosphorus and the mouth of the Euxine, eager to make the acquaintance of those ancient and storied regions, though simultaneously he brought relief to provinces outworn by internecine feud or official tyranny. On the return journey, he made an effort to visit the Samothracian Mysteries, but was met by northerly winds, and failed to make the shore. So, after an excursion to Troy and those venerable remains which attest the mutability of fortune and the origin of Rome, he skirted the Asian coast once more, and anchored off Colophon, in order to consult the oracle of the Clarian Apollo. Here it is not a prophetess, as at Delphi, but a male priest, chosen out of a restricted number of families, and in most cases imported from Miletus, who hears the number and the names of the consultants, but no more, then descends into a cavern, swallows a draught of water from a mysterious spring, and — though ignorant generally of writing and of metre — delivers his response in set verses dealing with the subject each inquirer had in mind. Rumour said that he had predicted to Germanicus his hastening fate, though in the equivocal terms which oracles affect.
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.34.4, 2.24.1, 3.23.8-3.23.9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.34.4. The Oropians have near the temple a spring, which they call the Spring of Amphiaraus; they neither sacrifice into it nor are wont to use it for purifications or for lustral water. But when a man has been cured of a disease through a response the custom is to throw silver and coined gold into the spring, for by this way they say that Amphiaraus rose up after he had become a god. Iophon the Cnossian, a guide, produced responses in hexameter verse, saying that Amphiaraus gave them to the Argives who were sent against Thebes . These verses unrestrainedly appealed to popular taste. Except those whom they say Apollo inspired of old none of the seers uttered oracles, but they were good at explaining dreams and interpreting the flights of birds and the entrails of victims. 2.24.1. The citadel they call Larisa, after the daughter of Pelasgus. After her were also named two of the cities in Thessaly, the one by the sea and the one on the Peneus. As you go up the citadel you come to the sanctuary of Hera of the Height, and also a temple of Apollo, which is said to have been first built by Pythaeus when he came from Delphi . The present image is a bronze standing figure called Apollo Deiradiotes, because this place, too, is called Deiras (Ridge). Oracular responses are still given here, and the oracle acts in the following way. There is a woman who prophesies, being debarred from intercourse with a man. Every month a lamb is sacrificed at night, and the woman, after tasting the blood, becomes inspired by the god. 3.23.8. About two stades to the right is the water of Ino, as it is called, in extent like a small lake, but going deeper into the earth. Into this water they throw cakes of barley meal at the festival of Ino. If good luck is portended to the thrower, the water keeps them under. But if it brings them to the surface, it is judged a bad sign. 3.23.9. The craters in Aetna have the same feature; for they lower into them objects of gold and silver and also all kinds of victims. If the fire receives and consumes them, they rejoice at the appearance of a good sign, but if it casts up what has been thrown in, they think misfortune will befall the man to whom this happens.
7. Iamblichus, Concerning The Mysteries, 3.11 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
8. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.162-4.167, 4.220-4.232, 5.1 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aigeus	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
alexander the great	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
apollo	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114; Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
apollo deiradiotis	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
aristides	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
asclepius	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
boeotia	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
chance, in delphic divination	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
choaspes	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
cilicia	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
claros	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
cydnus	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
delos	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
delphi	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
dio chrysostom	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
epidauros limera	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
eurymedon	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
god of the path, and libations	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
health	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
hesiod	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
ino	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
inspiration	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
interpretation, of attic drinking cup	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
kassiotis spring	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
kastalian spring	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
katoptromancy	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
lekanomancy	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
lots, pythias use of	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
mesopotamia	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
nile	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
odysseus	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
palici, sicily	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
pamphylia	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
penelope	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
pergamum	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
persians	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
pindar	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
pythaios	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
pythia, lots in a phialē	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
pythia	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
rhetoric	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
sacrifice	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
sacrifices'	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
sicily	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
tarsus	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
themis	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy, Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience (2019) 114
theopompus	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
thessaly	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
tigris	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60
water	Trapp et al., In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns (2016) 60