Footnote 69:
Pp. 255-6.
Footnote 70:
P. 23 D and p. 66 C.
Footnote 71:
Cp. Pindar’s:
_All vocal to the hearing of the wise,
All voiceless to the herd._—_Ol._ 2, 152-3.
Footnote 72:
From Simonides, a favourite phrase with Plutarch.
Footnote 73:
Fr. 41.
Footnote 74:
Fr. 25.
Footnote 75:
See on this remarkable passage E. Norden, _Agnostos Theos_, p. 231 f.,
and the view of H. Diels, communicated to him. I have followed Norden
in reading εἶ, ἤ (he suggests with hesitation προσεπιθειάζειν) (and so
Paton and Diels). Diels thinks that οἱ παλαιοί may cover later
philosophers such as Xenophanes.
Footnote 76:
_Il._ 4, 141.
Footnote 77:
_Il._ 15, 362.
Footnote 78:
Pindar (probably from a Threnos).
Footnote 79:
_Il._ 9, 158.
Footnote 80:
Fr. 149.
Footnote 81:
_Suppl._ 975.
Footnote 82:
Fr. 50.
Footnote 83:
Fr. 728, probably from the _Thamyras_.
II
WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE