Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plutarch, Whether Land Or Sea Animals Are More Clever, 976c

nan whence it appears that the race of water creatures is not wholly unendowed with your precious gift of divination. Indeed, Ihave heard that near Sura, a village in Lycia between Phellus and Myra, men sit and watch the gyrations and flights and pursuits of fish and divine from them by a professional and rational system, as others do with birds. But let these examples suffice to show that sea animals are not entirely unrelated to us or cut off from human fellowship. Of their uncontaminated and native intelligence their caution is strong evidence. For nothing that swims and does not merely stick or cling to rock

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aeschylus	Naiden (2013) 113
agetor	Naiden (2013) 113
aristophanes	Naiden (2013) 113
augury	Edmonds (2019) 207
burkert,w.	Naiden (2013) 113
divination	Edmonds (2019) 207
ephesus	Edmonds (2019) 207
extispicy	Edmonds (2019) 207
liver	Edmonds (2019) 207
omens	Edmonds (2019) 207
peace (goddess)	Naiden (2013) 113
plutarch	Edmonds (2019) 207
sacred fish'	Naiden (2013) 113
sacrifice	Edmonds (2019) 207
sparta	Naiden (2013) 113
trygaeus	Naiden (2013) 113