14. Instances of daemonic rites,

15. And daemonic stories, wrongly attributed to Gods, as that of Delphi

(PHILIPPUS shows surprise) and the flight of Apollo.

16. HERACLEON (first addressing PHILIPPUS) allows that daemons, not

Gods, may be concerned with oracles, but then they must be sinless

beings—CLEOMBROTUS: “Sinless daemons—if so, they would no longer be

daemons”:

17. And quotes stories to prove that daemons may be faulty, and one as

to the death of Pan to prove that they may be mortal.

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