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remedy for an excess of this kind. For all such like particulars are corporeal-formed, and are entirely separated from a divine and intellectual life. But each thing energizes conformably to its nature; so that the spirits which are excited by the Gods, and which produce in men Bacchic inspiration, expel every other human and physical motion; and it is not proper to assimilate their energies to those which are usually exerted after our manner; but it is fit to refer them to perfectly different and primordial divine causes. One species, therefore, of divine inspiration is of this kind, and is after this manner produced.
Another species of divine divination which is much celebrated, most manifest and manifold, is that of oracles, about which you say as follows: "There are some who drink water, as the priest of Clarius, in Colophon;[1] but others are seated at the mouth [of a cavern], as those who prophesy at Delphi; and others imbibe the vapour from water, as the prophetesses in
- ↑ See, concerning this oracle, Scholiastes Apollonii ad i. librum, et Tacitus ii. Annal.
