For it was one of his happy thoughts to issue prophecies after the event as antidotes to those premature utterances which had not gone right. Frequently he promised recovery to a sick man before his death, and after it was at no loss for second thoughts:

 No longer seek to arrest thy fell disease; 
 Thy fate is manifest, inevitable. 

 Knowing the fame of Clarus, Didymus, and Mallus for

 

soothsaying much like his own, he struck up an alliance with them, sending on many of his clients to those places. So

 Hie thee to Clarus now, and hear my sire. 
And again,

 Draw near to Branchidae and counsel take. 
Or
 Seek Mallus; be Amphilochus thy counsellor.