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The Delphuin Oracles, if compared i«nth Ibmc others, might jMr be call'd plain and perfpipious ; and, as HmrnMs, the Philofbpher, teUs us, it was ufual fgr tho& that had receiy'd an obfcure Anfwo" at D«- ilana, to defire jfiollo at Delphi to explain the moaning pf it : He adds filfb, that jipoUo had interpreted a gr^ many of them. Neverthekfs, 0ie7 were generaTy very obfcure, and ambieuous $ infbmuchthat^^^pi!^^, ^ iome fay, was call'd Ao^ict^, becaufe his Anfwers were AoBti ^gfi ^Wfiti. i'C cr...ooked, an^ nard to be underflood. And HerMclitus m Ittitarch, fpeaking of AtoUc, fidth, i-n htyetj in KfM^ei » d\ki ^fMt(r^» i. C. He doth fiof fpettk the Xruth ^\aMy, mr yet whofiy ^oaeeMl it, but only give fmall Jisnts of it s fb that if the "^y^t hop- pcn'd contr?u-y to apy Man's Expedigfcon, he migh't rather find feult with \d$ own Interpretation of t|ie Oracles, than call in qiieftion cither the l^iowledge or Veracity of Apollo, The rcaibn of tlus affoftcd Obfcu- ftty, is faid to have b(en this, viz,, Ov ng,^^^ j(^9«eS Ipd^it^eu i ^tUT^Pf &c.
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