[10\3: Those who wished to inquire of his oracle offered by night to Trophonios, before going down into the cave, a ram, sacrificing it in a pit (~bo/thros~): Paus. 9, 39, 6; to Amphiaraos, after a considerable fast (Philos., _VA._, 2, 37, pp. 79, 19 ff. K.) and the provision of a ~katha/rsion~, the inquirer offered a ram upon the fleece of which he lay down to sleep (Paus. 1, 34, 5).--Cleanthem cum _pede terram percussisset_ versum ex Epigonis (prob. of Soph.) ferunt dixisse: audisne haec, Amphiaraë, sub terram abdite? Cic., _TD._ ii, 60. The gesture also must have been borrowed from the same scene in the ~Epi/gonoi~. It was thus customary to knock on the ground in calling upon A., as in the case of other ~katachtho/nioi (Amphia/rae chtho/nie~ occurs as late as _P. Mag. Par._ 1446 f. W .): ~I~ 568; cf. Paus. 8, 15, 3. Cf. also Nägelsb., _Nachh. Theol._, 102, 214. Skedasos in Sparta ~gê=n tu/ptôn anekalei=to ta\s Erinu/as~, Plu., _AN._ 3, p. 774 B. In his grief for the loss of his daughter Herodes Atticus threw himself on the ground ~tê\n gê=n pai/ôn kai\ boô=n; ti/ soi, thu/gater, kathagi/sô? ti/ soi xuntha/psô?~ Philostr., _VS._ 2, 1, 10. Pythagoras ~ho/tan brontê/sê| tê=s gê=s ha/psasthai parê/ggeilen~, Iamb., _VP._ 156.] [11\3: That the dream-oracle of Trophonios had a much older influence is implied by the story of the inquiry made of it by the ~Boiôtoi\ halo/ntes hupo\ Thra|kô=n~ in Phot. (Suid.) ~lu/sioi teletai/~.] [12\3: Trophonios himself was supposed to appear in the cave at Lebadeia. The inquirer goes down to it ~deo/menos _suggene/sthai_ tô=| daimoni/ô|~ (Max. Tyr. 14, 2, p. 249 R.); indications were sought from sacrifice ~ei dê\ to\n katio/nta eumenê\s kai\ hi/leôs _de/xetai~_ (Trophonios), Paus. 9, 36, 6. Saon, the discoverer of the oracle and founder of the cult, had after entering the ~mantei=on~ met Trophonios himself in person, ~tê\n hierourgi/an . . . didachthê=nai para\ tou= Trophôni/ou phasi/~ (Paus. 9, 40, 2). He dwells and is visible in the oracular cavern: Orig., _Cels._ iii, 34, pp. 293-4 L.; vii, 35, p. 53; Aristid. i, p. 78 D. [38, 21 Keil]. Even the stupidly rationalising account of Troph. in Schol. Ar., _Nub._ 508, p. 190 Ruth., Sch. Luc., _DM._ iii, Cosm. ad Greg. Naz. p. 184 [Clarke, p. 52] (Eudoc., _Viol._, p. 682, 8)--implies the bodily presence of an ~egkatoikê=san daimo/nion~ in the cave of Trophonios. Lucian, too, shows that this was the popular impression (_DM._ iii, 2) by his curious satiric fiction that whereas Troph. himself was in Hades (to which acc. to _Necyom._ 22 the cave of Trophonios was only an {106} entrance ~to\ thei=on hêmi/tomon~ of Trophonios ~chra=| en Boiôti/a|~. Thus the visitor expected to meet Trophonios there in his divine shape, as Ampelius puts it in a similar case with great simplicity and directness, 8, 3: ibi (Argis in Epiro Iovis templum hyphonis (irretrievably corrupt: _Trophonii_ absurdly Duker; _Typhonis_, _Tychonis_ others not much better) unde