Why should the prophetic gift be associated with daemons, i.e. souls
which have left the body, rather than with those still in the flesh,
though it may be more energetic after death? Compare the processes of
Memory.
40. Divination touches on the future through bodily conditions assisted
by emanations and the like.
41. The special virtues of certain vapours or streams, as the Cydnus at
Tarsus.
42. The story of the first discovery of the Adytum of Delphi by the
shepherd Coretas. There must be sympathy of soul with prophecy, as of
the eye with light. The identification of Apollo with the sun.
43. The local prophetic currents may shift their place about, as rivers
and lakes are known to do.
44. Physical commotions, especially earthquakes, may be expected to
cause such shiftings.
45. DEMETRIUS has been too long away from home to answer as to the
Cydnus, but he tells a story about the oracle of Mopsus, which had
convinced a sceptical magistrate.
46. AMMONIUS and PHILIPPUS have points to raise. That of the latter is
as to the identity of the sun with Apollo, and is allowed to stand over.
AMMONIUS protests against the ascription of all prophecy to material
causes, but wishes to hear the view of LAMPRIAS.
47. LAMPRIAS observes that Plato had made a similar protest against
Anaxagoras. _Both_ sets of causes must be recognized.