olbius

Updated: May 18, 2025

Here, after the feast which followed a sacrifice, Olbius, who took charge of Nikogenes's children, fell into a kind of inspired frenzy, and spoke the following verse: "Night shall speak and give thee counsel, night shall give thee victory." After this Themistokles dreamed a dream. He thought that a snake was coiling itself upon his belly and crawling up towards his throat.

Plutarch - Plutarch's Lives, Volume I

While Themistocles lay hid for some days in his house, one night, after a sacrifice and supper ensuing, Olbius, the attendant upon Nicogenes's children, fell into a sort of frenzy and fit of inspiration, and cried out in verse, Night shall speak, and night instruct thee, By the voice of night conduct thee.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans