Wherefore the Pythian Priestess now Ceases to Deliver her Oracles in Verse (16-20)

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But you forgot, said one of the directors, that Croesus honored the woman that baked his bread with a golden statue, which he caused to be set up in this place, not to make a show of royal superfluity, but upon a just and honest occasion of gratitude, which happened thus. It is reported that Alyattes, the father of Croesus, married a second wife, by whom he had other children. This same step-dame, therefore, designing to remove Croesus out of the way, gave the woman-baker a dose of poison, with a strict charge to put it in the bread which she made for the young prince. Of this the woman privately informed Croesus, and gave the poisoned bread to the queen’s children. By which means Croesus quietly succeeded his father; when he did no less than acknowledge the fidelity of the woman by making even the God himself a testimony of his gratitude, wherein he did like a worthy and virtuous prince. And therefore it is but fitting that we should extol, admire, and honor the magnificent presents and offerings consecrated by several cities upon such occasions, like that of the Opuntines. For when the tyrants of Phocis had broken to pieces, melted down, and coined into money the most precious of their sacred donatives, which they spent as profusely in the neighboring parts, the Opuntines made it their business to buy up all the plundered metal, wherever they could meet with it; and putting it up into a vessel made on purpose, they sent it as an offering to Apollo. And, for my part, I cannot but highly applaud the inhabitants of Myrina and Apollonia, who sent hither the first-fruits of their harvests in sheaves of gold; but much more the Eretrians and Magnesians, who dedicated to our God the first-fruits of their men, not only acknowledging that from him all the fruits of the earth proceeded, but that he was also the giver of children, as being the

author of generation and a lover of mankind. But I blame the Megarians, for that they alone erected here a statue of our God holding. a spear in his hand, in memory of the battle which they won from the Athenians, whom they vanquished after the defeat of the Medes, and expelled their city, of which they were masters before. However, afterwards they presented a golden plectrum to Apollo, remembering perhaps those verses of Scythinus, who thus wrote of the harp:

This was the harp which Jove’s most beauteous son

Framed by celestial skill to play upon;

And for his plectrum the Sun’s beams he used,

To strike those cords that mortal ears amused.

Now as Serapio was about to have added something of the same nature, the stranger, taking the words out of his mouth, said: I am wonderfully pleased to hear discourses upon such subjects as these; but I am constrained to claim your first promise, to tell me the reason wherefore now the Pythian prophetess no longer delivers her oracles in poetic numbers and measures. And therefore, if you please, we will surcease the remaining sight of these curiosities, choosing rather to sit a while and discourse the matter among ourselves. For it seems to be an assertion strangely repugnant to the belief and credit of the oracle, in regard that of necessity one of these two things must be true, either that the Pythian prophetess does not approach the place where the deity makes his abode, or that the sacred vapor that inspired her is utterly extinct, and its efficacy lost. Walking therefore to the south side of the temple, we took our seats within the portico, over against the temple of Tellus, having from thence a prospect of the Castalian fountain; insomuch that Boethus presently told us that the very place itself favored the stranger’s question. For formerly there stood a temple dedicated to the Muses, close by the source of the rivulet,

whence they drew their water for the sacrifices, according to that of Simonides:

There flows the spring, whose limpid stream supplies

The fair-haired Muses water for their hands,

Before they touch the hallowed sacrifice.

And the said Simonides a little lower calls Clio somewhat more curiously

The chaste inspectress of those sacred wells,

Whose fragrant water all her cisterns fills;

Water, through dark ambrosial nooks conveyed,

By which Castalian rivulets are fed.

And therefore Eudoxus erroneously gave credit to those that gave the epithet of Stygian to this water, near which the wiser sort placed the temple of the Muses, as guardians of the springs and assistants to prophecy; as also the temple of Tellus, to which the oracle appertained, and where the answers were delivered in verses and songs. And here it was, as some report, that first a certain heroic verse was heard to this effect:

Ye birds, bring hither all your plumes;

Ye bees, bring all your wax;

which related to the time that the oracle, forsaken by the Deity, lost its veneration.

These things, then said Serapio, seem to belong of right to the Muses, as being their particular province; for it becomes us not to fight against the gods, nor with divination to abolish providence and divinity, but to search for convincement to refel repugnant arguments; and, in the mean time, not to abandon that religious belief and persuasion which has been so long propagated among us, from father to son, for so many generations.

You say very right, said I, Serapio; for we do not as yet despair of philosophy or give it over for lost, because, although formerly the ancient philosophers published their precepts and sentences in verse,—as did Orpheus, Hesiod, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Empedocles, and Thales,—yet

that custom has been lately laid aside by all others except yourself. For you indeed once more have arrayed philosophy in poetic numbers, on purpose to render it more sprightly, more charming, and delightful to youth. Nor is astrology as yet become more ignoble or less valued, because Aristarchus, Timochares, Aristillus, and Hipparchus have written in prose, though formerly Eudoxus, Hesiod, and Thales wrote of that science in verse; at least if that astrology was the legitimate offspring of Thales which goes under his name. Pindar also acknowledges his dissatisfaction touching the manner of melody neglected in this time, and wonders why it should be so despised. Neither is it a thing that looks like hurtful or absurd, to enquire into the causes of these alterations. But to destroy the arts and faculties themselves because they have undergone some certain mutations, is neither just nor rational.

Upon which Theo interposing said: It cannot be denied but that there have been great changes and innovations in reference to poetry and the sciences; yet is it as certain, that from all antiquity oracles have been delivered in prose. For we find in Thucydides, that the Lacedaemonians, desirous to know the issue of the war then entered into against the Athenians, were answered in prose, that they should become potent and victorious, and that the Deity would assist them, whether invoked or not invoked; and again, that unless they recalled Pausanias, they would plough with a silver ploughshare.[*] To the Athenians consulting the oracle concerning their expedition into Sicily, he gave order to send for the priestess of Minerva from the city of Erythrae; which priestess went by the name of Hesychia, or repose. And when Dinomenes the Sicilian enquired what should become of his children, the oracle returned for answer, that they should all three

be lords and princes. And when Dinomenes. replied, But then, most powerful Apollo, let it be to their confusion; the God made answer, That also I both grant and promise. The consequence of which was, that Gelo was troubled with the dropsy during his reign, Hiero was afflicted with the stone, and the third, Thrasybulus, surrounded with war and sedition, was in a short time expelled his dominions. Procles also, the tyrant of Epidaurus, after he had cruelly and tyrannically murdered several others, put Timarchus likewise to death, who fled to him for protection from Athens with a great sum of money,—after he had pledged him his faith and received him at his first arrival with large demonstrations of kindness and affection,—and then threw his carcass into the sea, enclosed in a pannier. All this he did by the persuasion of one Cleander of Aegina, no other of his courtiers being privy to it. After which, meeting with no small trouble and misfortune in all his affairs, he sent to the oracle his brother Cleotimus, with orders to enquire whether he should provide for his safety by flight, or retire to some other place. Apollo made answer, that he advised Procles to fly where he had directed his Aeginetan guest to dispose of the pannier, or where the hart had cast his horns. Upon which the tyrant, understanding that the oracle commanded him either to throw himself into the sea or to bury himself in the earth (in regard that a stag, when he sheds his antlers, scrapes a hole in the ground and hides his ignominy), demurred a while; but at length, seeing the condition of his affairs grew every day worse and worse, he resolved to save himself by flight; at which time the friends of Timarchus, having seized upon his person, slew him and threw his body into the sea. But what is more than all this, the oracular answers according to which Lycurgus composed the form of the Lacedaemonian commonwealth were given in prose. Besides, Alyrius, Herodotus,

Philochorus and Ister, than whom no men have been more diligent to collect the answers of the oracles, among the many which they cite in verse, quote several also in prose. And Theopompus, the most diligent that ever made scrutiny into oracular history, sharply reprehends those who believed the Pythian oracles were not delivered in verse at that time; and yet, when he labors to prove his assertion, he is able to produce but very few, because doubtless the rest even then were uttered in prose.

Yet there are some that now at this day run in verse; one of which has become notorious above the rest. There is in Phocis a temple consecrated to Hercules the woman-hater, the chief priest of which is forbid by the law and custom of the place to have private familiarity with his wife during the year that he officiates; for which reason they most commonly make choice of old men to perform that function. Nevertheless, some time since a young man, no way vicious and covetous of honor, yet doting upon a new married wife, took upon him the dignity. At first he was very chaste and temperate, and abstained from the woman; but soon after, the young lady coming to give him a visit as he was laid down to rest himself after a brisk dancing and drinking bout, he could not resist the charming temptation. But then, coming to himself and remembering what he had done, perplexed and terrified, he fled to the oracle to consult Apollo upon the crime which he had committed; who returned him this answer,

All things necessary God permitteth.

But should we grant that in our age no oracles are delivered in verse, we should be still doubtful about the ancient times, when the oracles were delivered sometime in verse sometime in prose. Though, whether it be in prose or verse, the oracle is never a whit the falser or the more miraculous, so that we have but a true and religious opinion

of the Deity; not irreverently conceiting that formerly he composed a stock of verses to be now repeated by the prophetess, as if he spoke through masks and visors.

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time	4	w	6474
expelled	2	w	6482
his	19	w	6485
dominions	1	w	6494
Procles	1	w	6502
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the	159	w	6510
tyrant	2	w	6516
of	58	w	6518
Epidaurus	1	w	6527
after	3	w	6533
he	201	w	6535
had	3	w	6538
cruelly	1	w	6545
and	41	w	6548
tyrannically	1	w	6560
murdered	1	w	6568
several	2	w	6575
others	2	w	6581
put	3	w	6585
Timarchus	1	w	6594
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death	1	w	6609
who	7	w	6613
fled	1	w	6617
to	60	w	6619
him	3	w	6622
for	28	w	6625
protection	1	w	6635
from	7	w	6639
Athens	1	w	6645
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a	447	w	6650
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pledged	1	w	6684
him	4	w	6687
his	20	w	6690
faith	1	w	6695
and	42	w	6698
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him	5	w	6709
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his	21	w	6714
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large	1	w	6735
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affection	1	w	6771
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then	9	w	6780
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his	22	w	6788
carcass	1	w	6795
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the	163	w	6802
sea	3	w	6805
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a	464	w	6817
pannier	1	w	6824
All	1	w	6828
this	6	w	6832
he	207	w	6834
did	6	w	6837
by	9	w	6839
the	164	w	6842
persuasion	2	w	6852
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one	11	w	6857
Cleander	1	w	6865
of	62	w	6867
Aegina	1	w	6873
no	27	w	6876
other	4	w	6881
of	63	w	6883
his	24	w	6886
courtiers	1	w	6895
being	3	w	6900
privy	1	w	6905
to	62	w	6907
it	64	w	6909
After	1	w	6915
which	18	w	6920
meeting	1	w	6928
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no	28	w	6934
small	1	w	6939
trouble	2	w	6946
and	46	w	6949
misfortune	1	w	6959
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all	14	w	6964
his	25	w	6967
affairs	1	w	6974
he	210	w	6977
sent	7	w	6981
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the	166	w	6986
oracle	8	w	6992
his	26	w	6995
brother	1	w	7002
Cleotimus	1	w	7011
with	13	w	7016
orders	1	w	7022
to	64	w	7024
enquire	3	w	7031
whether	2	w	7038
he	215	w	7040
should	6	w	7046
provide	2	w	7053
for	30	w	7056
his	27	w	7059
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or	81	w	7076
retire	1	w	7082
to	65	w	7084
some	5	w	7088
other	6	w	7093
place	5	w	7098
Apollo	5	w	7105
made	5	w	7109
answer	5	w	7115
that	33	w	7120
he	217	w	7122
advised	1	w	7129
Procles	2	w	7136
to	66	w	7138
fly	1	w	7141
where	6	w	7146
he	219	w	7148
had	5	w	7151
directed	1	w	7159
his	28	w	7162
Aeginetan	1	w	7171
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to	67	w	7178
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of	64	w	7187
the	170	w	7190
pannier	2	w	7197
or	82	w	7200
where	7	w	7205
the	171	w	7208
hart	1	w	7212
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cast	1	w	7219
his	29	w	7222
horns	1	w	7227
Upon	2	w	7232
which	19	w	7237
the	172	w	7240
tyrant	3	w	7246
understanding	1	w	7260
that	34	w	7264
the	173	w	7267
oracle	9	w	7273
commanded	1	w	7282
him	6	w	7285
either	4	w	7291
to	68	w	7293
throw	1	w	7298
himself	2	w	7305
into	7	w	7309
the	175	w	7312
sea	4	w	7315
or	85	w	7317
to	70	w	7319
bury	1	w	7323
himself	3	w	7330
in	113	w	7332
the	176	w	7335
earth	2	w	7340
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regard	2	w	7349
that	35	w	7353
a	496	w	7354
stag	1	w	7358
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sheds	1	w	7370
his	30	w	7373
antlers	1	w	7380
scrapes	1	w	7388
a	500	w	7389
hole	1	w	7393
in	115	w	7395
the	177	w	7398
ground	1	w	7404
and	49	w	7407
hides	1	w	7412
his	31	w	7415
ignominy	1	w	7423
demurred	1	w	7433
a	502	w	7434
while	2	w	7439
but	9	w	7443
at	82	w	7445
length	1	w	7451
seeing	1	w	7458
the	178	w	7461
condition	1	w	7470
of	65	w	7472
his	32	w	7475
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day	1	w	7494
worse	1	w	7499
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worse	2	w	7507
he	233	w	7510
resolved	1	w	7518
to	71	w	7520
save	1	w	7524
himself	4	w	7531
by	11	w	7533
flight	2	w	7539
at	83	w	7542
which	20	w	7547
time	5	w	7551
the	179	w	7554
friends	1	w	7561
of	66	w	7563
Timarchus	2	w	7572
having	2	w	7579
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upon	5	w	7589
his	33	w	7592
person	1	w	7598
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him	10	w	7606
and	51	w	7609
threw	2	w	7614
his	34	w	7617
body	1	w	7621
into	8	w	7625
the	180	w	7628
sea	5	w	7631
But	5	w	7635
what	3	w	7639
is	66	w	7641
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this	7	w	7656
the	181	w	7660
oracular	1	w	7668
answers	2	w	7675
according	2	w	7684
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which	21	w	7691
Lycurgus	1	w	7699
composed	1	w	7707
the	182	w	7710
form	5	w	7714
of	67	w	7716
the	183	w	7719
Lacedaemonian	2	w	7732
commonwealth	1	w	7744
were	5	w	7748
given	1	w	7753
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prose	4	w	7760
Besides	1	w	7768
Alyrius	1	w	7776
Herodotus	1	w	7786
Philochorus	1	w	7798
and	52	w	7801
Ister	1	w	7806
than	3	w	7811
whom	3	w	7815
no	30	w	7817
men	7	w	7820
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more	8	w	7832
diligent	1	w	7840
to	74	w	7842
collect	1	w	7849
the	184	w	7852
answers	3	w	7859
of	68	w	7861
the	185	w	7864
oracles	3	w	7871
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the	186	w	7880
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And	10	w	7932
Theopompus	1	w	7942
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those	5	w	8020
who	9	w	8023
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the	189	w	8034
Pythian	3	w	8041
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not	10	w	8055
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to	77	w	8103
prove	1	w	8108
his	37	w	8111
assertion	2	w	8120
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Phocis	2	w	8297
a	554	w	8298
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Hercules	1	w	8325
the	194	w	8328
woman-hater	1	w	8339
the	195	w	8343
chief	1	w	8348
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of	70	w	8356
which	24	w	8361
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the	196	w	8374
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the	197	w	8391
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no	34	w	8569
way	2	w	8572
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of	74	w	8592
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yet	6	w	8601
doting	1	w	8607
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a	575	w	8612
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him	11	w	8638
the	201	w	8641
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At	5	w	8651
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the	202	w	8703
woman	6	w	8708
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give	4	w	8746
him	12	w	8749
a	587	w	8750
visit	1	w	8755
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he	267	w	8759
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himself	5	w	8783
after	6	w	8788
a	592	w	8789
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he	268	w	8819
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temptation	1	w	8854
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remembering	2	w	8892
what	4	w	8896
he	271	w	8898
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done	1	w	8905
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and	60	w	8918
terrified	1	w	8927
he	272	w	8930
fled	2	w	8934
to	89	w	8936
the	206	w	8939
oracle	12	w	8945
to	90	w	8947
consult	2	w	8954
Apollo	6	w	8960
upon	8	w	8964
the	207	w	8967
crime	1	w	8972
which	26	w	8977
he	275	w	8979
had	8	w	8982
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no	37	w	9079
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oracles	6	w	9164
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oracle	15	w	9250
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to	92	w	9404
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now	7	w	9409
repeated	1	w	9417
by	13	w	9419
the	215	w	9422
prophetess	3	w	9432
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if	10	w	9437
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