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Isocrates explicitly names Homer and invokes his reputation for wisdom to support the claim that foreknowledge of the future is beyond human power.
For I think it is manifest to all that foreknowledge of future events is not vouchsafed to our human nature, but that we are so far removed from this prescience that Homer, who has been conceded the highest reputation for wisdom, has pictured even the gods as at times debating among themselves about the future —not that he knew their minds but that he desired to show us that for mankind this power …
against the sophists · Homer is invoked as a poetic authority to support the claim that foreknowledge lies beyond human reach ¶
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