Delphic oracle
Apollo
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Even Apollo's oracle concedes Zeus's superior will.
"Pallas cannot propitiate Olympian Zeus, though she entreat with many words and shrewd counsel;
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Archidamus Isocrates 1 citation · 3 passages
The speech relies on Apollo’s Delphic oracle as authoritative confirmation of Spartan title and action.
That oracle, moreover, which all would acknowledge to be the most ancient and the most widely accepted and the most trustworthy in existence, recognized Messene as ours, not only at the time when it commanded us to receive the country as a gift from the sons of Cresphontes and to go to the aid of the wronged, but also later, when the war dragged on and both sides sent delegations to Delphi, the Me …
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Republic Plato 1 citation
Explicitly cited as sanctioning authority: 'the law will allow brothers and sisters to cohabit if the lot so falls out and the Delphic oracle approves.'
But the law will allow brothers and sisters to cohabit if the lot so falls out and the Delphic oracle approves.
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