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Pausanias, Description of Greece 334 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 208 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 84 0 Browse Search
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War 34 0 Browse Search
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Diodorus Siculus, Library 26 0 Browse Search
Aeschines, Speeches 24 0 Browse Search
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Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 806 (search)
Chorus And you who occupy the mighty, gorgeously built cavern,The inner sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi was a narrow cave or vault in which, over a cleft, stood a tripod covered by a slab on which the prophetess sat （Athenaeus , 701c, Strabo, ix. 641）. grant that the man's house may lift up its eyes again in joy, and that with glad eyes it may behold from under its veil of gloom the radiant light of free
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.), line 32 (search)
Chorus For with a hair-raising shriek, Terror, the diviner of dreams for our house, breathing wrath out of sleep, uttered a cry of terror in the dead of night from the heart of the palace,a cry that fell heavily on the women's quarter.The language of the passage is accommodated to a double purpose: （1） to indicate an oracular deliverance on the part of the inspired prophetess at Delphi, and （2） to show the alarming nature of Clytaemestra's dream: while certain limiting expressions （as a)wpo/nukton, u(/ptou） show the points of difference. “Phoebus” is used for a prophetic “possession,” which assails Clytaemestra as a nightmare （cp. baru\s pi/tnwn）; so that her vision is itself called an o)neiro/mantis. And the readers of these dreams, bound under pledge, cried out from the god that those beneath the earth cast furious reproachesand rage