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question among learned men, whether the CHAP. 
.answers in them were given by the inspiration T _' j 
of evil spirits, or whether they proceeded from 
the imposture of priests : neither can it again 
be urged that they ceased at the birth of Christ; 
because Pausanias bears testimony to their 
existence at Argos in the second century '. Per- 
haps it was to the particular shrine now de- 
scribed that his evidence refers : its position, 
however, does not exactly warrant this opinion ; 
for the oracle he mentions corresponded rather 
with the situation of the monastery upon a 
ridge of the hill of the Acropolis. In this situa- 
tion he places other shrines; namely, the Hieron 
of Jupiter Saviour, together with a cell (ot'xtjf^cc,') 
or abiding place, where the Arrive women were 
wont to mourn the death of Adonis*', and as not 
only Heathen deities, but also heroes, were ren- 
dered subservient to these purposes of priest- 
craft, the worship of Adonis might have con- 
tributed to swell the list of temples where 
oracles were delivered. Near to the same spot other Re- 
we saw the remains of an Aqueduct : and to this 
(1) MavTiJira/ -yap tri xa) It fifths. Vid. Pausan. in Corinth, c. 24. 
p. 165. ed. Kuhnii. 
(2) Kai A<; la-riy \vraZ6a. Ifgov crturv^os, *< fm^iouffti tls ra o'l'xnpx, iirxvffu, 
7-o"ASwv at yvia.lx.ii 'Af>yttM HSu^otrcu. Ibid. C. 20. p. 156. 
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