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"To the testimony of philosophers let us add that
of a most learned man and truly divine poet,
Sophocles. A heavy gold dish having been stolen
from the temple of Hercules, the god himself
appeared to Sophocles in a dream and told who had
committed the theft. But Sophocles ignored the
dream a first and second time. When it came again
and again, he went up to the Areopagus and laid
the matter before the judges who ordered the man
named by Sophocles to be arrested. The defendant
after examination confessed his crime and brought
back the dish. This is the reason why that temple
is called 'the temple of Hercules the Informer.'
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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