for it was quite late, indeed only the other day, that the flute [Sidenote: C] ventured to let itself speak “on themes of joy”; in early times it trailed along in mourning, nor was its service therein much esteemed or very cheerful; then there came a general confusion. It was specially by mingling things which were of Gods with those which were of daemons that the distinction of the instruments was lost. Anyhow, the phrase “KNOW THYSELF” seems to stand in a sort of antithesis to the letter “E”, and yet, again, to accord with it. The letter is an appeal, a cry raised in awe and worship to the God, as being throughout all eternity; the phrase is a reminder to mortal man of his own nature and of his weakness.’ Footnote 51: Fr. 960. Footnote 52: i.e. at draughts, with a play on words. Footnote 53: Fr. 71. Footnote 54: _Il._ 17, 29. Footnote 55: See p. 14. Footnote 56: _Il._ 1, 70. Footnote 57: So Emperius, whose reading is that of the Paris MS. E. (See Paton _in loco_.) Footnote 58: Fr. 22. Footnote 59: A reference to the complaint with which the first attempts of Aeschylus and others to give literary form to the popular hymns in honour of Dionysus were greeted. Footnote 60: i.e. ‘not many’. Footnote 61: See p. 76. Footnote 62: Fr. 392. Footnote 63: Terms used by Heraclitus (Fr. 24), adapted by the Stoics for the periodic conflagration and renewal of the universe. Footnote 64: _Timaeus_, 31 A and 55 E foll. Footnote 65: _De Caelo_, 1, 8-9, 276 a 18. Footnote 66: _Il._ 15, 190. Footnote 67: See _Iph. Aul._ 865 and _Herc. Fur._ 1221. Footnote 68: P. 409 A. Footnote 69: Pp. 255-6. Footnote 70: P. 23 D and p. 66 C. Footnote 71: Cp. Pindar’s: _All vocal to the hearing of the wise, All voiceless to the herd._—_Ol._ 2, 152-3. Footnote 72: From Simonides, a favourite phrase with Plutarch. Footnote 73: Fr. 41. Footnote 74: Fr. 25. Footnote 75: See on this remarkable passage E. Norden, _Agnostos Theos_, p. 231 f., and the view of H. Diels, communicated to him. I have followed Norden in reading εἶ, ἤ (he suggests with hesitation προσεπιθειάζειν) (and so Paton and Diels). Diels thinks that οἱ παλαιοί may cover later philosophers such as Xenophanes. Footnote 76: _Il._ 4, 141. Footnote 77: _Il._ 15, 362. Footnote 78: Pindar (probably from a Threnos). Footnote 79: _Il._ 9, 158. Footnote 80: Fr. 149. Footnote 81: _Suppl._ 975. Footnote 82: Fr. 50. Footnote 83: Fr. 728, probably from the _Thamyras_. II WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE THE SPEAKERS A. Introductory BASILOCLES, a citizen of Delphi. PHILINUS, a friend (perhaps also of Delphi). B. Philinus narrates a Conversation between