Mopsus

And if we think those figures the inventions of fabling licence — Mopsus, Tiresias, Amphiaraus, Calchas, Helenus (whom, however, not even the fables would have made augurs if the thing were wholly to be rejected) — shall we not, taught by examples even from our own house, prove the divinity of the gods?

Mopsus the son of Apollo and Manto, in Pamphylia and Cilicia;

and Dorotheus, in the first book of his Pandect, relates that Mopsus understood the kingfisher and the crow.

For let there be silence about Cometes the Cretan, Cinyras the Cypriot, Admetus the Thessalian, Aristaeus the Cyrenian, Amphiaraus the Athenian, Timoxenus the Corcyrean, Demaenetus the Phocaean, Epigenes the Thespian, Nicias the Carystian, Ariston the Thessalian, Dionysius the Carthaginian, Cleophon the Corinthian, and Hippo the daughter of Chiron, and Boeo and Manto, and the multitude of the Siby …

The seer shouted to them to throw themselves into the oars, announcing that their hopes were sweet;

and the seer Mopsus, making his prophecy from birds and the casting of sacred lots, gladly gave the men the signal to set out.

But, to pass over to the mythical, which is allotted to the poets, I do not know whether it is worth seeking the equal of our mediocrity, whether they are confirmed by such documents of divinity, as Mopsus the African and Amphiaraus the Boeotian.