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Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, 402d
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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 38 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

38. Themselves both first and last. Why do I raise
2. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

71e. as good as they possibly could, rectified the vile part of us by thus establishing therein the organ of divination, that it might in some degree lay hold on truth. And that God gave unto man’s foolishness the gift of divination a sufficient token is this: no man achieves true and inspired divination when in his rational mind, but only when the power of his intelligence is fettered in sleep or when it is distraught by disease or by reason of some divine inspiration. Tim. But it belongs to a man when in his right mind to recollect and ponder both the things spoken in dream or waking vision by the divining and inspired nature, and all the visionary forms that were seen, and by means of reasoning to discern about them all


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cook,arthur b. Gagné (2020) 115
epic Gagné (2020) 115
epic poetry Pillinger (2019) 9
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franke,william Pillinger (2019) 8
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jacoby,felix Gagné (2020) 115
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metre,and prophecy Pillinger (2019) 8, 9
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pagasus Gagné (2020) 115
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plutarch Gagné (2020) 115
poetry,and prophecy Pillinger (2019) 8, 9
prophecy,and poetry Pillinger (2019) 8, 9
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prophētēs' Pillinger (2019) 9
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tradition Gagné (2020) 187
trophonios Gagné (2020) 115
wax Gagné (2020) 115, 187