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 1 Intro| cross-examining the world from the Oracle of Delphi; for he must already
 2 Intro|     Chaerephon went to consult the Oracle (Riddell), and the story
 3 Intro|            to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was any man wiser
 4 Intro|          should be declared by the oracle to be the wisest of men?
 5 Intro|   vindication of the credit of the oracle, and in the vain hope of
 6 Text |        Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether—as I
 7 Text |          to interrupt—he asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone
 8 Text |        find out the meaning of the oracle. And I swear to you, Athenians,
 9 Text |           only to find at last the oracle irrefutable. After the politicians,
10 Text |            myself on behalf of the oracle, whether I would like to
11 Text |        answer to myself and to the oracle that I was better off as
12 Text |         then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not
13 Text |           gods, if I disobeyed the oracle because I was afraid of
14 Text |         and in divers places of an oracle or sign which comes to me,
15 Text |      faculty of which the internal oracle is the source has constantly
16 Text |            and worst evil. But the oracle made no sign of opposition,
17 Text |         the matter in hand has the oracle opposed me. What do I take
18 Text |        from trouble; wherefore the oracle gave no sign. For which