Oracular pronouncements of Delphi

1. Laws Plato 1 authority 1 citation

   book 5

   The lawgiver is told not to alter Delphi's advice on gods, shrines, and rites, treating it as inviolable authority.

   —in respect of gods, and shrines, and the temples which have to be set up for the various gods in the State, and the gods and daemons they are to be named after, no man of sense,—whether he be framing a new State or reforming an old one that has been corrupted,—will attempt to alter the advice from Delphi or Dodona or Ammon, or that of ancient sayings, whatever form they take—whether derived from …

2. Phaedrus Plato 1 authority 1 citation

   phaedrus

   The Delphic prophetess is explicitly cited as evidence within the argument for the value of madness.

   For the prophetess at Delphi 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;

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