1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1213, 1215, 1217-1218, 1223-1241, 1248, 1254-1257, 1264-1278, 1282, 1284, 1288-1304, 1309-1310, 1322-1330, 1035 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1035. εἴσω κομίζου καὶ σύ, Κασάνδραν λέγω | 1035. Take thyself in, thou too — I say, Kassandra! |
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2. Aristophanes, Knights, 31 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 31. θεῶν ἰόντε προσπεσεῖν του πρὸς βρέτας. | |
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3. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ; |
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4. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 244b. and the priestesses at Dodona when they have been mad have conferred many splendid benefits upon Greece both in private and in public affairs, but few or none when they have been in their right minds; and if we should speak of the Sibyl and all the others who by prophetic inspiration have foretold many things to many persons and thereby made them fortunate afterwards, anyone can see that we should speak a long time. And it is worth while to adduce also the fact that those men of old who invented names thought that madness was neither shameful nor disgraceful; |
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5. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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6. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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7. Phlegon of Tralles, On Miraculous Things, 10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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8. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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9. Seneca The Younger, Agamemnon, 729-736, 742, 749, 728 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
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10. Iamblichus, Concerning The Mysteries, 3.4-3.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
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11. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.5, 6.45-6.49
| 6.5. Makes each ship sure, and shading the long strand 6.45. To shape thy fall, and twice they strove in vain. 6.46. Aeneas long the various work would scan; 6.47. But now Achates comes, and by his side 6.48. Deiphobe, the Sibyl, Glaucus' child. 6.49. Thus to the prince she spoke : |
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