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future evenis for hicli the offere u hecatombs, and wedges os old. Revolving the se things in thei miniis, and consulting together, they resolved therefore, to et up an oracle this, the imagined is it succecded, ouldsoon ahe them ricli an happy P and which. in deed, turn ed ut even farbeyon ali heiriopes They the considere Mon hat spol, an in halman ne they mouid egi their enterpri Ze Cocconas asis opinion, that Chalcedon o uidi the fittest sit uation, ascit asin place of great trade, ad-joining both to Thrace an Bithynia, and withai, notria distant frona Asia, Gallo-Graecia. and the eighbourin nations Alexander, on the other hand preferred his o n ountry, observing, whicli is certaini true, that
the sirit attemptri things of this kind saould alwaysae ad amongst themost ignorant an stupid suci a the Paphlagonians are se id tole, a solisti
an superstilous se of people, Rho, is a fidier, or a player o the labor, O cymbal, come among them, ne lio, a the sayiniis, cana ut prophecywith a' saeve, ill ruit illi pen nasuth, and gape an stare at him, as f
Aster o me dispute on his potnt, Alexander prevat lex and proceed ingio Chalcedon, the thought orand omething there hici, ouldae offervice to them, in the ancient temple of Apollo the du umsonae brasstableis, on hic it a inscribed that in a very si ori time AEsculapius, illi Apollo his ather, ould come into Pontus, and inhabit the wallis Abonus. These tableis, contrive for the occasion, most effectuali spread the reportthrough Pontus and Bithynia, an particulari about the wali os bonus. The immediatet determine tolui id a temple there, and had laid the oundationi it, he Cocco nas eing est eli in at Chalcedon, composed me ambiguous an perpleXing oracles, an no longister dieit, einibit, I belleve, by a Viper.
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Alexander, o ever, Proeeeded, and ad his appea rance illi longso vin hair, and cloathed in a sine purple robe illi, hi te stri pes, and a sur-plice ove ir, illi a scy the in his hand like the figure of Perseus, rom, hom, according to his An account, he was descended. The rascali Paphlagonians though the very wel kne that his parenis ere mean and ignoble, gave fuit credit to the oracle, hicli thus declared, Frona Perseus sprung, and to Apollo dear,
Great AleXander comes, the god like sono Podaliri US. Podalirius must have been ad aster omen in deed, o have come roru Tricca qui te to Paphlagoiata, o me et Alexander' mother. nother oraclewas like is produced, a fromine of the Sibyls, hicli se id, Near to Sinope, on the Euxine moreo Pontus, at th Ausonia tow'rs, mali rise samous prophet, and deli verer; Whose jam one, hirty, ve, and Kent more, Thrice number'd, ill explain.
rade Alexander a tengthiade his entrance into his o vn Ountry, here, ina hortatim heaeca me ver conspicuous, pretending Often to e mad, and Dam a the mouili, hi chrae east contrived by chere in the rooti ful-ler' her, the oam it produce appea re to them omething divine andastonisaing. The hadae fore prepared the head os a serpent ad os linen, With something like a human forna, extremel Nel patia ted, and ope ningrand
Namp. A mysterious hind of hocus pocus hicli the false prophet' friend made se of to expresse therar four letters of his name, by the letters in the Gree alphabet being numerical,
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stultiniit molathi means of a hors hair, hich liherui se move abolit ablac forked longue. his Pellaean serpent the had by them fordo me timeready orae produce on the rst proper Occasion, to carry on the farce orrathe tole the principat actor incit. A theshew wasio tolegin, he hi on the following project He ruent by night to the foundations of the temple, hic ha been late ly ug p, and whicli ere fuit os ater, ei ther frona the adjacent places, o by thera ins and there lodge a goose' eg that ha been ad holloo, and fili edup ith a ountserpent aster liching this in the ud, e re turn ed home; and the nex da appea rei naked in the market- place, illi only a girille fgol round his id die, and sh ah in his dissi evelle locks like the wors hip- pers of Cybele, illi his scythe in his hand, and getling ponis hi gh altar,
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The eopte sol loKed hina seem in g, as it ere, inspired, and fili edivitii a religio has phren Zy beyon ali conception He sta3 ed at homes me days, saltering himself that, as it aster ard proved the repor of this ould dra the Paphlagonians to in in great numbers; and accordingly, hen the cit was a fuli as it could old, o creatatures ithout ead or earis, ho resemble me oni in thei form, an in very thin et se ere more like meep, e sat imself own in alitile ous ora a bed, cloathed in a mos magnificent habit, as eca me agod and there ook in his lap the grea beauti fui Pellaean Esculapius hic hI mention ex me time ago, an lappin it qui te round his nech, the talistiching out a bottona, for it Was so large, that par of it might la in hisbosom, and the ther par dragin the ground, hidini the ead unde his
arm-piis, hera a tength the linen one eepexout stomaeneath his garment, ascis it e longe to the serpent. Imagine to oursel a hou se of O great note, illi carce room to let thelio hi in crouded illi peopte ire ad amaZe and almost ut of thei senses with stronga opes and expectations, o hom, not illi OUt ea n the assa irmust have see med ondei fui; illi hat astonissament di the belloid his serpent to ali appearanc grown to ich a s Ze in acie lays, qui te tam and gentie, and with a ead like a man ' i e re the had hal seen it, rivenout an pressed by the croud o ne admirer comin in pon them, forthere a another cloorin the opposive side, like that hicli the Macedonians made, a the teli g, hen AleXander the reat was sich, and ver bodycrouded in to se an ta ke thei last leave o hi m. his hein the rogue exhibited very osten, and specialty heia an ricli stranger came into the city. To say the truth, myraea Celsus, the eople o Pontus and Paphlagonia, stupid an illiterate race of men, re very exculuble, aster ouching the serpent, Whicli Alexander permitted them to do, and see in ita a faintand glimmering light opera and laut iis mouit in that manner, the were deceived. The tricli in deed required a Democrates, an Epicurus, or a Metrodorus, O me man Oi a firm and penetrat in minii, homi ter casting abolit
A croc0. PGr. Κορωνις, Coronis, his is nothingi ut a pu on the word coronis, whicli in the Gree signifies also a cro , Who a the mother of Esculapius.
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ho it couldie done, ould a last, fine could not nil out the method, conclude that it mustae nothingi ut an arrant falsehood, and ulteri impraeticable. In adhortati me, ali Bithynia, Thrace, and Gallo-Graecia floched in to this spectacle; veryone asserting, as ou a suppose, that he had seen thegod horn, and ouched hi in that he had grown immens et in a se days: and that he had a face like a man. The made, moreover, pictures, statues, and modet of hima se meo brasi, and other of silver, illi thema meo the god inscribed pon them forte a called Glycon, Dor an oracular verse hich Alexander had ahen care to publim; hicli suid, Behold the third hom Jove, great Glycon comes, The light of men. When the time a no come o bring on the great assat for hicli thewhole a contrived he egan to th in os se iting up the oracle, after theman ne of Amphilochus , Rho, after the deat of his ather Amphiaraus, at Thebes, anistae fro his native country, andiri ven into Cilicia, made agood fortune there by prophestin to the inhabitanis; aking two oboli of them for ver oracle Alexander, 'uaking the ue fron him, avemutthat the go would deli ver oracles o suci a da : e then ordere everybod to inrite down in a book What the wante to noW, tye it down iththread, and fasten it,ith acor lay. e then retire in to the sanctuary, so the temple was no bulli, and the cene os actio prepared, summone them togetheri a cryer, ad his hi gh-pri esti his side, asci the godliadiso done ali his bufiness, an read What they ad rit ten returnedevery one his book, ealed uinas a tirst; illi the antae to ver questioni verse.
Amphiloebus Succeeded his ather Amphiaraus in the bufines of divination by dreanas,sor hic both the oracles ere famous. For an account os the lalter, lae Potter' Autiq. vol. i. P. 393. Taling the cue. Gr. Το ν σι - λαζων, cantus initio accepto. An allusion to music he one finger ahes up the wotas frum another, as in catches.
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the sit placo then, m dea Celsus, he 'eate a noedi in the re, and puttiniit unde the wax, iste u the eat, and rea the book then bymeans of the needle melling the wax again, asil faste ne do is both that Which, as unde the thread, and that hicli a round the stat There is, like Nise another method, hen yo mahem se of What the cali the collyrium ;this is composed of Brythi an pitch, asphaltus, and transparentione, mixed with wax an mastic whicli heirst warnas a the re and wet with spitile, then applies it to the seat, and ahes si ille impresso the collyrium hardens, he ea sit read the content of the aper, then Putting the wacon again, clapsin the ne sea exacti resembling the original, and a perfect as Dith ad been ahen on a gem. There is et a thir Way of doiniit, hicha wil acquaint ou illici he would put lime mixed with the lue o maheus os for books, ah it into a Lind of wax, an place it et o the eat, then ah iniit oss, for it soon ries an grow harde than horia, na eventhan iron, get an impression oscit. There a re besides these, severat other methods, ali of hicli it ouldie ridiculo us to enumerate; speciali asyo have mentione them, illi a great many the things in ou bookagainst the magicians, hic licis excellently written, an convey the ostus esul instructions to the reader. Thus didae institute his oracle, and pou fori his divine knowlege, act-iniat the a me time illi the reate prudene and discretion, and always adhering to probabili ty givin perplexe an ambiguous an Mers, seme- times totali obscure an unintelligibie, hicli in ali oracles, he held, asmost necessar an indispensibie. Some he would dissuade an turn waysrom thei purpos es sae thought most convenient; to therche ould pre- scribe a manner o living, and ad vis the se of particula medicines for as observed to)ouae re, he had by him se me excellent receipis, particularly the cytmides , a ne nam e hichaea ad gi ven to an iniment amous for
mea eri S . The iam ingeniou method of opening letters or at lea semething very smila tot liena, are, I belleve, practi sed to this day. ut seriarther insormationis the subjecto reser in reader in the clervs of the Post-oniceo
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curin patias an diruises, ad of ears lat. The question about future good fortune, realares, and estates in expectance, lae always deferre 1 giv in ans Xers to, and too care to adit, thes things mali come totas i Iplea se, and fis prophe Alexander ask it of me, audiui ui his prayer
The state price for very anMe frona the oracle asin, drachma and two oboli. D no imagine, myriri end that this as a mali consideration, sorae ook event or et glit thous and Very year, i ving the fame eopte semetimes te orificen ans ers, suci, was thei insatiabie destre of searchinginto futuri ty. The profit in deed, a no entiret his own nor id heiorei allip butis he had many assistants, under-Worlimen, spies, riterS, and heepers of the oracles, interpreters, se alers, c. he divided to every one his portion, according to thei meriis. Besdes these, essent emissaries into foret gn countries, o suppor the reputatio of his oracle, an gi velutio it could detecto fugitives, convictili leves an robbers, discove hidden trea fures, ea the sich, and even seme- times catl the dea toclife again. his made them crou to him frona very part lience rose ises, an sacrifices, an a doubie se to him a prophetan disciple, o favourite of the deity sor his decree had been carefullydispersed abroad, a Domahe god,
Remember, e m minister Obey, To him respein and due obedience V, Nor fame, nor riches m assections mare, My faith fui prophet is y ni Care. At en gili, severa me of sense and understandi in g, recovered a it ereseo in their runken fit, made a stan against him, the principat of homwere followers of Epicurus, hol degrees mund ut the whole apparatus, an discovere ali his trichs These e opposed by throwing out a
iis Draehma, ri. J About in penc hal penny. eis of ou fortune-tellers arei rea sonable in thei demands. The number o customers, o ever, accordindito Lucian, adeample amend for the smalines of the present.' γοῖ tirus. J The Epicureans ere alWays, whicli, by the bye, as a mar o thei modsense, the avowed enemies of oracles an divinations and even in the times of their oreretestinfluene an power, frequently an opent deride them With these, Lucian telis us, the Christians Oined, as it might naturali be supposed the would, ascit hecam the opposer of error, fraud, and chicanery Thesearos imposition on the credulit of mankind wer no on the decline. It is no improbabie, ut that this litile narrative of Luciati's, contributed insonae meas ure toWard thei total overthroπ.
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terribi menace, and saying that Pontus as ullis atheist an Christian g, Whoi ad dared to spread evit reporis concern in bim hom there re hecommande the eo pleo sto ne and rive ut of the city, is the ever expedied the deit wouldie propitio us to them Vith regari to Epicurus, he deli vered the folio .ving oracle: ein aia. ed hat he di in ille mades helow, herans Nered That he ore leaden setters there, and stuckin the ud. Can Jou Wond r at the successe of the oracle, hichiave suci, strewd and sensibi an swersi illi Epicurus and his follo ers, in deed, he waged perpetuat War the were irreconci labie enenates, and willi ery good reasona for hommust an impostor like him, the loveri prodigies, and the se of truth, more justi abhor an detest, thaia that philosophe who se et under stood thenatur of things, and alone discoVered hat a true an genuine in them. Vith the Platoni cs, Stoics, an Pythagoreans, it a ali profound peacea but the inflexibi Epicurus, o sole always calle hina, as his most bitteradversary, constanti laughing at, an turn in ali his fraud and trich totidicule O ali the cities in Pontus, he Ostinate Amastris, o account of Lepidus, and somemther of the sanae turn an dispositio of ind whoclived there nor ould ever ouch sala an an Mero any of the inhabitanis. Once, indeed, at the equest of a senator' brother, he attempted it but whether it was that he couldio th in os a proper ne himself, o could not gelan bod to mahe onerior him, he came frier ridiculoussy for the patient
complaining of a di sorde in his bo eis, e prescribe Mine's seet illi mal
Leeping the head in his bolam, here it a concea ted. ut having now am in to strike the multitude illi omething more than ordinary, ecloidthem the o would spea himself, an delive his oracles by ordis mouth, without the assistance of his prophet This as ea sit done, bymeans of the wind-pipes of cranes sociastene to the stam ead, si a voice placed ithout to conve the Mund through the line mouili os seu lapius These were calle Autophoni, o the vocat oracles, and were not
v b mtid. Alludin to the loos manners of the Epicureans alloWing in sensual plealares. Agreeablerio Horace' Epicuri de grege porci.
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And when thes olim Gaul was thus prevat ted on to mahe the invason, and Diled in the attempt, ei nisa in together illi ali his orces by Othryades he erased that oracle homo he records, and substitu ted in iis place thesello ing verses Against Armenia leadio sori thy oK'rs, Lest Domin De inde male gar array'd fata arro sent, deprive thee bon
For it was one of his most excellent contrivances to mahe oracles after the event, o save the credit of thos that ad miscarri ed. He would osten promise health, an is the person led another oraclemas seon ready that Did, See nolin cure, soranois thy late is nigh, Nor can st thou scaperit. WelI knowing that the Clarians, allians, and Didymaeans ere samoussor the fame artis prophe sying he made friend of them, sending Waymany of those lio came to him illi appeal to them: omne hessald, To Claros haste, and hea myriather' voice. Τ another, G to the Branchidae, and there consuli
Anyto a third, To Mallos hence, and hea ' Amphilochus.
Amphiloebus. J The oracleis Amphilochus was fine of the longest-lived religious ima postor os antiquity Dion C. speak of it a in a Bourisain state, eve so lateras in the rei gruos Constantius, the fallieris Constantine the Great.
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Such, as the state of the affair ea home, in Ionia, Cilicia, Paphlagonia,
and Gallo-Graecia ; ut hen the fame of the oracle ad reache a far asItat an Rome the croude a fastos possibi one pon another semecam themselves, sonae sent essen ger totim, particularly the great men, and thos vilio ere possessed of the ighest honour an dignitiesu heirst, oris one may say, theae ad of these, a Rutilianus, a maia in very ther respectis good character an reputation, and who had acquit ted himself in severat public employmenis; ut in religious matters superstitious, an evenas it ere, di sordered in his indoentertaining the wildest opinions concerning them, lio, siue ound but a tone in his way, a notia ted or crowne witha garland would sali down in adoration, and as sonae favour oscit Thismata, as oon a he eard of the oracle, as illi dissiculi restrat ned romte avi nihi business, and akin a vis to the wallis Abonus. He sent,
however, severa messengers, ne aster another; these, eing most of them ignorant servanis, ere easi lyraeceived and when the came bach report-ed hat he had seen an heard with sonae improvements of their Kn;whicli they adde to recommend thenaseives the belle to thei master. his excite the oor old man 's curios ty, and drove him almoxio madnest. Ashe was acqua inte&withiost of the grca men of the ity, he an about an dioid them very thingae ad heard Do the servanis to hichae likeruisemade sonae additions. In his mannerae at sed the attentio of the wholeci ty, and set them ali in motion, persuadin severat of the courtier to applyimmediatet to hina, and en ire bout their own assairs. Our hero noton lyreceived them illi the greatest hospitali ty, ut sent them hac loade with presenis, inso much, thatio contenta illi publisiain his an Kers, thenseund ed forti the prat se of the deity, and relate a thousan miraculous stories, concern in both the oracle and the prophet. Our thrice renowne rascat no thoughtin another scheme, hich was by o means an impoliticine, ut truly orthyi an illustrious robber and this a to open and look into ali th books hic li,eressent, and fies undan thin in them oldis of a angerous tendency thos he wouldaeepwithout sendin bac any ans ver by hicli means, he ad the authors intire ly subservient to hina, and heept them in perpetua fear, as elli no in of hat nature thei questions ere. One may asil guest, in-deed, illi regar to the rich and great, hat ould most probabi be thesubjecti them. But