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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 Oenomaus's attack on oracles, since Apollo at Delphi, far from being able to do his own will, would be compelled by
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also mentions that Oenomaus wrote tragedies. This list, however, does not include the work which is best known to us, namely, his attack on the
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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 Oenomaus, if true, remove free-will from human beings.
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Let not the Cynic be shameless or impudent after the fashion of Oenomaus, a scorner of all things divine and human: rather let him be, like
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His scorn culminates in an attack on the quackery which he sees behind the pronouncements:
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philosopher. He is known principally for the long extracts of a work attacking
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governs everything and yet admitted human liberty in how we respond to Fate:
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and Oenomaus are considered notable philosophers." He is also mentioned in
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It has been suggested that Oenomaus is identical to the philosopher
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associated with events from 109 to 120 AD "The philosopher
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as flourishing in the 224th Olympiad (117 to 121 AD): "
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world was impressed Oenomaus' thoughts; the Emperor
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Index

Greek
Pagan
Cynic
oracles
Eusebius of Caesarea
Gadara
Chronicle
Jerome
Plutarch
Sextus
Agathobulus
George Synkellos
Sextus
Agathobulus
Talmud
Midrash
Rabbi Meir
Suda
Julian
oracles
Latin
Eusebius
Praeparatio Evangelica
Oracle at Delphi
Apollo
Roman
Julian
Diogenes
Stoics
Fate

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