SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse · De Pythiae oraculis

Plutarch

Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt

Visitors at Delphi ask why the Pythia now answers in prose, and how the god speaks through her.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg091, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Frank Cole Babbitt, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg091.perseus-eng3). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 2

  1. 1Sections 2–16
  2. 2Sections 17–30