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You cast before him two piles of corn; if he picks at the one to right we take toad’s bone, to left the adder’s fat. Heaven will speak to us.” “Excellent,” cried Niobe, brightening. “But, of course, we must use only consecrated corn, that’s two obols more.” Niobe’s face fell. “I’ve only this half-drachma.” “Then, philotata,” said Dion, kindly but firmly, “we had better wait a little longer.”
“Eu! eu!” muttered the old sinner, “it’s hard to say what’s best,—powder of toad’s bone or the mixture of wormwood and adder’s fat. The safest thing is to consult the god—” “What do you mean?” “Why, my holy cock here, hatched at Delphi with Apollo’s blessings on him.” Dion pointed with his thumb to the small coop at his feet. “The oracle is simple.
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