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Why then, pray, Simmias, said Phidolaus, shall we suffer Galaxidorus drollingly to degrade so considerable a prophetic spirit into an omen or a sneeze; which the vulgar and ignorant, it is true, merrily use about small matters; but when any danger appears, then we find that of Euripides verified,— None near the edge of swords will mind such toys.From the Autolycus, a lost Satyrdrama of Euripides, Frag. 284, vs. 22. (G.)