...He said this with the sententious gravity that he gave to all his words,as if he were uttering oracles...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...The ancient Germans believed that there was something holy inwomen, and accordingly consulted them as oracles...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Such a spring issaid to have gushed from the foot of the great oak at Dodona, andfrom its murmurous flow the priestess drew oracles...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...) The command"to mix bowls of wine and to establish choral dances," in thesecond and fourth oracles, serves as an explanatory comment on"return fit thanks to the Bromian" in the first...
Various 「The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1」
..." In obedience to the oracles then, publicsacrifices could not have been lacking at the Anthesteria...
Various 「The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1」
...The oracles wereinscribed upon palm leaves; to which circumstance Virgil alludes inhis description of the sayings of the Cumæan Sibyl being written uponthe leaves of the forest...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...He hadbeen consulting the oracles at Sparta, andHerodotus states that “while he was offeringsacrifice to know if he should march outagainst the Persian, the Sun was suddenlydarkened in mid-sky...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
... The oracles which the Deity has revealed to the nations through His different mediums, are they clear? Alas! there are not two men who understand them alike...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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