44. Physical commotions, especially earthquakes, may be expected to cause such shiftings.
45. Demetrius has been too long away from home to answer as to the Cydnus, but he tells a story about the oracle of Mopsus, which had convinced a sceptical magistrate.
46. Ammonius and Philippus have points to raise. That of the latter is as to the identity of the sun with Apollo, and is allowed to stand over. Ammonius protests against the ascription of all prophecy to material causes, but wishes to hear the view of Lamprias.
47. Lamprias observes that Plato had made a similar protest against Anaxagoras. Both sets of causes must be recognized.
48. And so in the case of prophetic utterances.
49. The actual procedure of Delphi, and the tests applied to the victim, justified.
50. The influences to which the prophetess is subject.
51. Story of a prophetess who was wrongly pressed when the conditions were adverse. The force of the exhalation affects different persons differently. It is essentially daemonic, but not exempt from change or decay.
52. The subject is difficult, and must remain open to discussion, as also the question raised by Philippus about Apollo and the sun.