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For Delphi, for Ammon, Dodo'na in fine, For every oracular temple and shrine The birds are a substitute, equal and fair; For on us you depend, and to us you repair For counsel and aid when a marriage is made A purchase, a bargain, or venture in trade: Unlucky or lucky, whatever has struck ye A voice in the street, or a slave that you meet, A name or a word by chance overheard If you deem it an omen you call it a bird; And if birds are your omens, it clearly will follow That birds are a proper prophetic Apollo.
In Epirus was also situated the celebrated city of Dodo'na, with the temple of that name, where was the most ancient oracle in Greece, whose fame extended even to Asia. But in the wide waste of centuries even the site of this once famous oracle is forgotten. Where, now, Dodona! is thine aged grove, Prophetic fount, and oracle divine? What valley echoes the response of Jove?
The sacred precincts were not to be profaned by those who were polluted with unexpiated crime, nor by blood, nor by the presence of the dead: Hence the temples of Greece were places of refuge for those who would escape from private or judicial vengeance. The more famous oracles of Greece were at Dodo'na, at Delphi, at Lebade'a in Boeotia, and at Epidaurus in Ar'golis.
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