Oracles
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oracles · The Oracles · actual oracles · admonitions of the gods · oracle
in the texts
Against Meidias
Religious pronouncements invoked to show that choruses, hymns, crowns, sacrifices, and dances are divinely sanctioned.
You surely realize that all your choruses and hymns to the god are sanctioned, not only by the regulations of the Dionysia, but also by the oracles, in all of which, whether given at Delphi or at Dodona, you will find a solemn injunction to the State to set up dances after the ancestral custom, to fill the streets with the savour of sacrifice, and to wear garlands.
Besides these oracles, men of Athens, there are many others addressed to our city, and excellent oracles they are.
To Dionysus pay public sacrifices and mix a bowl of wine and set up dances;
On the False Embassy
Divine warnings read to the jury and applied to statesmen, unity, and punishment of traitors.
To enforce the warning that it is better to take those precautions than to be credulous, I will read to you an oracle of the gods,—to whom Athens owes her salvation far more than to her most prominent politicians.
Therefore, you are all exhorted by Zeus, by Dione, by all the gods, to punish with one mind those who have made themselves the servants of your enemies.
(The Oracles are read)