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Rous, Francis; Bogan, Zachary [Hrsg.]
Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem — Oxford, 1658

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Archmologia Attics,. Lib. 7. Cdp. 2." 341
that m?n were [0 apt to speakjontrary to what they £«*\V , either
em t>s ill will, orsorsearesor sor favour ,t hat these was littt'e^or no
credtt to be given to any other Prophecy, befidts Apollo's own.
And yet itiscleare , that the Woman or some body else
was naught,and corrupted very often. Tally when be had thus
commended her for a tell-trotb, nmquam Hind oraculum Del-
phis tarn celebre & tam clarum suijjet^ nej^ tantu donis resertum
omnium popttlorum at^ regum , niji omnu <ttnt oraculorum i/lo-
rum verimemejstt experta, afterward comes in with a Jamdiu
idem nonsacit. But indeed,^ hat not been 1 hut along time. Nay
for three hundred yeares ( 1 think ) before time, Demo st be-
nes could coroplaine (he did ptUT^mfaxxxt and speak3asP6». 'piutarch.dt
lip would have her. Thus one time she was bribed by Clysthe- Herodot.
nesjo perswade the Lacedemonians to free the Athenians from
the Tyranny;and another time byCletmexes,to perswade them
to deprive his Colleague Dimarauu of his phce. Neither
Would LycophroncM Apollo Ki?J~£ov Step for nothing.
But you will say some other body might play the knave,
and put it upon her. And likely enough. For so Cictrc thinks
tbey did in that answer reported to be given by Apollo to 7>jr-
hut, Aio te zy£actda Romanos vhicere po(Je. And that3 First be- L-2. de Di-
ctate Apollo did not {peak in Latine. 2iy,Because none of the
Greek writers mention any such thing. And 3 !y, Becaase the
Oracles were not given in verse in Pyrrhm his time.
CAP. Is.
T>t Ternplo De/phicot de Theoriif? Oraculi ces.uiove.
ALL this while I have (aid nothing of the Tern pie , for
jl \ feare of saying too little. So famous and so rich as ir
was with the gifts ofmostosthe Princes or
People in the world ( insomuch that tAphetoii& opes, so said
from
 
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