[786] Both Plato (Apol. 40 A) and Xenophon (Mem. I. 1. 2–4), compare Socrates’ converse with his genius with μαντική or ‘inspiration.’
[787] Hesiod, Works and Days, 185, with reading οὐδὲ θεῶν ὄπα εἰδότες.
[788] Βάκχος and Βάκχη, cf. Eur. H. F. 1119.
[789] De divinatione, I. 3.
[790] op. cit. I. 18.
[791] Prom. Vinct. 485–99.
[792] Suid. Lex. s.v. οἰωνιστική.
[793] Cic. de Divin. I. 4.
[794] Ibid. I. 6 and 18.