Archologia Grca Or the Antiquities of Greece

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Archologia Grca Or the Antiquities of Greece
John Potter
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It was fometimes call'd A§)uoiov, from the word a^Jra/, which iignifies to help Or defends becauie the Sons of Titan, being vancuifiYd by Saturn, fled into this Cave, and there efcap'd the Fury of their purfuing Conqueror (c).
CHAP. IX.
Of the Oracles of Apollo.
I tome in the next place to fpeak of the Oracles of Apollo, who w?js thought more peculiarly to preiide over Prophets, and inipire into them the Knowledge of future Events ; whence the Enigmatical Poet rails him, K2^(gH, or Gainful, fro
...m ^ cf ; Sh Gain, becauie of the Pro- fit which Man-kind receiv'd by his Predictions, faith Tzefzes (d) upon that place.
The Oracles of Apollo were not only the moll numerous, but of the; greateft Repute ; and amongfl them the Delphian challenged the firft place, as well for its Antiquity, (wherein it contended even with that ofDodona) as for the Truth and Perfpicuiiv of its Anfwers, the magnifi- cence of its Structures, the Number and Richnefs of the facred eLV&ty» t ua. 7zi* or Prefents, dedicated to the God, and the Multitudes which from nil Parts refbrted thither for Counfel; in which refpecl: it furpafs'd, not only all the Oracles of other Gods, but even thofe facred to A- polio himfclf.


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