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In so great a danger all were looking to you, and you were both their informant of the future, and their adviser as to present action. And while they believed you trustworthy, you were sure that they were fools; and that the present opportunity was convenient for drawing on the simpletons, and
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And it seems to me that you are no better than the so-called marvel-mongers, nay not even than the rest of the quacks and sophists. At them, however, I do not wonder, that they abandon men for pay; but I do wonder at you, the god, and at mankind, that they pay to be
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For surely the most ridiculous of all things is this, the mixture and combination of the two notions, that there is something in men's own power, and that there is nevertheless a fixed chain of causation.
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driving them headlong, not only to the schools of sophistry at Delphi and Dodona, but also to the seats of divination by barley and by wheat-flour, and to the ventriloquists.
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This apparent contradiction was at the heart of
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also mentions that
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Oenomaus, like most Cynics, was not an atheist, but he did view the gods as being unconcerned with human affairs. One of his targets was the
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to make his pronouncements. More importantly, oracular pronouncements, according to
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Let not the Cynic be shameless or impudent after the fashion of
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100:and Oenomaus were becoming known."
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29:Οἰνόμαος ὁ Γαδαρεύς
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175:Against the Oracle
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190:Γοήτων Φωρά
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602:Hipparchia
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503:Eusebius,
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146:(Πολιτεία)
117:Rabbi Meir
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698:Pancrates
688:Theagenes
663:Demetrius
651:Roman era
627:Menedemus
612:Cleomenes
607:Metrocles
582:Philiscus
555:Greek era
479:, book v.
463:, book v.
447:, book v.
427:, book v.
66:Chronicle
764:Cynicism
703:Crescens
693:Oenomaus
658:Favonius
642:Meleager
632:Cercidas
622:Menippus
567:Diogenes
490:Julian,
431:book vi.
409:Julian,
399:Oinomaos
261:Diogenes
213:Eusebius
144:Republic
75:Plutarch
678:Demonax
577:Monimus
492:Oration
429:18-36;
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215:in his
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113:Midrash
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759:Pagans
597:Crates
413:, vii.
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253:Julian
227:Apollo
167:Julian
109:Talmud
94:Sextus
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71:Jerome
61:Gadara
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637:Teles
494:, vi.
291:Notes
249:Roman
195:Latin
123:Works
41:Cynic
38:Pagan
24:Greek
617:Bion
395:Suda
350:ISBN
285:Fate
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