Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday 6 May 2012

The Pythian Oracle

at Delphi
could be consulted only
nine days a year.
But that was too often
for the (Christian, Byzantine)
Emperor Theodosius I,
who shut it down
after a millennium of
its pronouncements.
May he be cursed.

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