1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 22-32, 34-35, 33 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 140| 33. τοῦ κε κορεσσάμενος νείκεα καὶ δῆριν ὀφέλλοις | 33. Is not stored up a year’s stock of the grain |
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2. Plato, Sophist, 252c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •python, pythoness (= prophet) Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 140| 252c. ΘΕΑΙ. πῶς; ΞΕ. τῷ τε εἶναί που περὶ πάντα ἀναγκάζονται χρῆσθαι καὶ τῷ χωρὶς καὶ τῷ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ τῷ καθʼ αὑτὸ καὶ μυρίοις ἑτέροις, ὧν ἀκρατεῖς ὄντες εἴργεσθαι καὶ μὴ συνάπτειν ἐν τοῖς λόγοις οὐκ ἄλλων δέονται τῶν ἐξελεγξόντων, ἀλλὰ τὸ λεγόμενον οἴκοθεν τὸν πολέμιον καὶ ἐναντιωσόμενον ἔχοντες, ἐντὸς ὑποφθεγγόμενον ὥσπερ τὸν ἄτοπον Εὐρυκλέα περιφέροντες ἀεὶ πορεύονται. | 252c. Theaet. How so? Str. Because they are obliged in speaking of anything to use the expressions to be, apart, from the rest, by itself, and countless others; they are powerless to keep away from them or avoid working them into their discourse; and therefore there is no need of others to refute them, but, as the saying goes, their enemy and future opponent is of their own household whom they always carry about with them as they go, giving forth speech from within them, like the wonderful Eurycles. |
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3. New Testament, Acts, 16.16 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •python, pythoness (= prophet) Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 140| 16.16. Ἐγένετο δὲ πορευομένων ἡμῶν εἰς τὴν προσευχὴν παιδίσκην τινὰ ἔχουσαν πνεῦμα πύθωνα ὑπαντῆσαι ἡμῖν, ἥτις ἐργασίαν πολλὴν παρεῖχεν τοῖς κυρίοις | 16.16. It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. |
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4. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, 414e (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •python, pythoness (= prophet) Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 140 | 414e. Their presence and power wise men are ever telling us we must look for in Nature and in Matter, where it is manifested, the originating influence being reserved for the Deity, as is right. Certainly it is foolish and childish in the extreme to imagine that the god himself after the manner of ventriloquists (who used to be called 'Eurycleis,' but now 'Pythones') enters into the bodies of his prophets and prompts their utterances, employing their mouths and voices as instruments. For if he allows himself to become entangled in men's needs, he is prodigal with his majesty and he does not observe the dignity and greatness of his preeminence.""You are right," said Cleombrotus; "but since it is hard to apprehend |
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| 5. Lucian, Lexiphanes, 20 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •python, pythoness (= prophet) Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 140 |
| 6. Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, 8.9.11 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •python, pythoness (= prophet) Found in books: Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) 144 |
