Quod sileat.
Pharsal. lib. v, 111.
Of all the wants with which the age is curst,
The Delphic silence surely is the worst.”
Rowe.
In like manner, Juvenal says,
Delphis oracula cessant,
Et genus humanum damnat caligo futuri.
Sat. vi, 554.
Since Delphi now, if we may credit fame,