29
They that lived in the neighbourhood of Galaxium in Boeotia became aware of the manifest presence of the god by reason of the copious and overabundant flow of milk Cf. Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. iii. p. 719, Adespota, no. 90; Pindar, Frag. 101-102 ed. Christ; Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Hermes, xxxiv. p. 225.: From all the flocks and all the kine Like purest water from the springs Milk in abundance welling down Made music in the milking-pails. And all the folk in eager haste Filled every household vessel full; Wineskin and jar were put to use, Each wooden pail and earthen tun. But for us the god grants clearer, stronger, and plainer evidence than this by bringing about after a drought, so to speak, of earlier desolation and poverty, affluence, splendour, and honour. It is true that I feel kindly toward myself in so far as my zeal or services may have furthered these matters with the co-operation of Polycrates and PetraeusL. Cassius Petraeus; cf. Pomtow, Beiträge zur Topographie von Delphi, p. 122.; and I feel kindly toward the man who has been the leader in our administration and has planned and carried out practically all that has been done.There is a lacuna in the mss. here, but the sense is clear. But it is not possible that a change of such sort and of such magnitude could ever have been brought about in a short time through human diligence if a god were not present here to lend divine inspiration to his oracle.
