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sex, which rendered them more susceptible of enthusiastic delirium ;
to promote which, all the rites practised before the respouses were
giveta, particularly tended.
71. The inspiring exhalation was at first attributed to the Earth
only ; then to the Earth in conjunction with Neptune or the Sea;
and lastly to Apollo or the Sun.1 These were, however, only dif-
ferent modifications of one cause, always held to be unalterably
the same, though supposed to act, at different times, indifferent
■ways and by different means. This cause was Jupiter, the all-
pervading spirit of the universe, who had the title of All-prophetic,1
because the other deities presiding over oracular temples were merely
personifications of his particular modes of action.3 The Pelasgian,
or rather Druidical oracle of Dodona, the most ancient known, im-
mediately belonged to him ; the responses having been originally
delivered by certain priests, who pretended that they received them
from the oaks of .the sacred grove;4- which, being the largest and
1 Pausan. lib. x.
- Uavoficpaios.
3 See Pindar. Olymp. viii. 58. Lucan has expressed this ancient mystic
dogma in the language of the Stoics; and modified it to their system, ac-
cording to the usual practice of the Syncretic sects.
Forsan terris inserta regendis
Acre libracum vacuo quai susfinet orbem,
Totius pars magna Jovis Cirrhaea per antra
Exit, et Eetherio trahitur connexa Tonanti.
Hoc ubi virgineo conceptumest pectore humeri,
Ilumanam feriens animam sonat, oraquevatis
Solvit. Pharsal. lib. v. ver. 93.
See also Ammian. Marcellin. lib. xxi. c. 1.
* Zev ava, AtoSwraie, neAcuryiKf, rr)\oBe paiaiv,
&o>dwvy)s fieSewv 6t«^xe<iU£pou■ afitpi Sc 5eAAoi
2oi vaiovtr u7ro^7jTai, aPi7TT07ro5es, xa^aiewai.,
Iliad. Tt. v. 833.
iF.schylus has only commented upon Homer.
'A tuv apemv /cat x«M"" icotrwv eya
. SeAAwv vrABwv aAiros eureypafyanriv
Xlpos ti;5 irarpcua? k-ai TtuXvyXwrrtrov Spuos,
sex, which rendered them more susceptible of enthusiastic delirium ;
to promote which, all the rites practised before the respouses were
giveta, particularly tended.
71. The inspiring exhalation was at first attributed to the Earth
only ; then to the Earth in conjunction with Neptune or the Sea;
and lastly to Apollo or the Sun.1 These were, however, only dif-
ferent modifications of one cause, always held to be unalterably
the same, though supposed to act, at different times, indifferent
■ways and by different means. This cause was Jupiter, the all-
pervading spirit of the universe, who had the title of All-prophetic,1
because the other deities presiding over oracular temples were merely
personifications of his particular modes of action.3 The Pelasgian,
or rather Druidical oracle of Dodona, the most ancient known, im-
mediately belonged to him ; the responses having been originally
delivered by certain priests, who pretended that they received them
from the oaks of .the sacred grove;4- which, being the largest and
1 Pausan. lib. x.
- Uavoficpaios.
3 See Pindar. Olymp. viii. 58. Lucan has expressed this ancient mystic
dogma in the language of the Stoics; and modified it to their system, ac-
cording to the usual practice of the Syncretic sects.
Forsan terris inserta regendis
Acre libracum vacuo quai susfinet orbem,
Totius pars magna Jovis Cirrhaea per antra
Exit, et Eetherio trahitur connexa Tonanti.
Hoc ubi virgineo conceptumest pectore humeri,
Ilumanam feriens animam sonat, oraquevatis
Solvit. Pharsal. lib. v. ver. 93.
See also Ammian. Marcellin. lib. xxi. c. 1.
* Zev ava, AtoSwraie, neAcuryiKf, rr)\oBe paiaiv,
&o>dwvy)s fieSewv 6t«^xe<iU£pou■ afitpi Sc 5eAAoi
2oi vaiovtr u7ro^7jTai, aPi7TT07ro5es, xa^aiewai.,
Iliad. Tt. v. 833.
iF.schylus has only commented upon Homer.
'A tuv apemv /cat x«M"" icotrwv eya
. SeAAwv vrABwv aAiros eureypafyanriv
Xlpos ti;5 irarpcua? k-ai TtuXvyXwrrtrov Spuos,