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Besides these
oracles, men of Athens, there are
many others addressed to our city, and excellent oracles they are. Now what
conclusion ought you to draw from them? That while they prescribe the sacrifices
to the gods indicated in each oracle, to every oracle that is published they add
the injunction to set up dances and to wear garlands after the manner of our
ancestors.
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