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out. Eyery lime I shall stapd in neçd qf consulUng 

 the oracle, I am conviflcçd I shall find it, it will 

 E|,ot refuse to answer, nor will il deceive ipe. 



vJ api pot born of the oak , said Ta^aon, 1 am not 

 bprp pf the rock , my body was npt inplten brass , 

 Ihree times in a day çould I make the tour of Crète. 

 Thus was l formerly. Then , I should not hâve had 

 the intelligence of thy discourses. But to escape the 

 fate which threatened me , for my life depended o» 

 a fatal nail which might be taken frorn me , I re- 

 pogni:jed the empire of Jupiter, and I hâve changed 

 ^i^y nEitpre. It is now given me to undersland thee. 

 Thou confidest ip t^e inspiration of speech ilself. 

 This sut)lime and impénétrable doctrine , which thou 

 receivedst as the breath of life , or as the sight by 

 which thy pyes see, thy origin being deaveply this 

 sub|inip anfi impenetralile dpçtrine Avas already 

 taught me t|y tl^e sages of Indus. Let it be , for 

 §pipe instants the subjepl, npt of pur solitary mé- 

 ditations, but of pur communiçated ones. As thou , 

 I feed on the fruits of the earlh ; and the thoughts 

 pf man are given , to fertil^ze each other mutually. 

 Ilpisrever I will bpfpre ail tell yoii one single thing. 

 ^li9U confidest in speech , reftise speecli to those 

 :^hp ovight npt to possess it. Enyelop \he law in 

 inystery tp rep^P? i^ » unfalhon^able to the pro- 

 f^ne. 



» Thus TalïfPfi and Orpheus conversed tpgether 

 and beguiled by suc^ discourses the approach pf 

 a séparation w]iich w^s tp be sp painful tp ail. He 

 to vyhom it should be giveif to knpw the conyer- 



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