Show the ancient oracles herodotus mentions menti ors cs between seven ty and eighty oracles of one sort a and ad another there is no reason to for r abi thinh k ing that bat the people who patronized the oracles had lb than n the liveliest faith in them else why should they have gone to them sometimes at great trouble and expense to themselves the two great oracles were those at delphi and though there were several others that stood well with the people the predictions were ere of course nothing hut but preda predictions since it Is now generally understood that that the prom promoters of 0 those itose famous institutions were only ordinary human beings like those w who ho patronized a iro i then them the deliverance of ilic be oracles belong to oneff one of two classes first those founded on secret InT ormi tion lion and secondly those in which the oracle had absolutely absolu iely nc ideas p f i p 4 rt arl tonk ill ati i i ii |