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38 When I had said this, Demetrius remarked, Lamprias gives the right advice; for The gods make us to slip by many forms not of tricks, as Euripides Cf. Nauck, Trag. Graec. Frag. p. 674, Euripides, no. 972. says, but of facts, whenever we make bold to pronounce opinions about such matters as if we understood them. But the discussion must be carried back, as the same writer says, Cf. the note on 390 c, supra. to the assumption made at the beginning. For what was said then, that when the demigods withdraw and forsake the oracles, these lie idle and inarticulate like the instruments of musicians, raises another question of greater import regarding the causative means and power which they employ to make the prophetic priests and priestesses possessed by inspiration and able to present their visions. For it is not possible to hold that the desertion by the demigods is the reason for the silence of the oracles unless we are convinced as to the manner in which the demigods, by having the oracles in their charge and by their presence there, make them active and articulate.