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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hyperides, Speeches | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus. You can also browse the collection for Dodona (Greece) or search for Dodona (Greece) in all documents.
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and the priestesses at Dodona when they have been mad have conferred many splendid benefits upon Greece both in private and in public affairs, but few or none when they have been in their right minds; and if we should speak of the Sibyl and all the others who by prophetic inspiration have foretold many things to many persons and thereby made them fortunate afterwards, anyone can see that we should speak a long time. And it is worth while to adduce also the fact that those men of old who invented names thought that madness was neither shameful nor disgraceful;
to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.PhaedrusSocrates, you easily make up stories of Egypt or any country you please.SocratesThey used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak