And you must still hesitate to pronounce any one of them guilty of the sacrilege--those objects may be their own lawful property: one cause of all this obscurity being, as I think, that there was no inscription on the lost cup, if cup it was.

Had the name of the god, or even that of the donor, been upon it, at least we should have had less trouble, and having detected the inscription, should have ceased to trouble any one else by our search.
-- I have nothing to reply to that.
-- Hardly anything plausible.

So that if we wish to find who it is has the sacred vessel, or who will be our best guide to Corinth, we must needs proceed to every one and examine him with the utmost care, stripping off his garment and considering him closely.

Scarcely, even so, shall we come at the truth.

And if we are to have a credible adviser regarding this question of philosophy--which of all philosophies one ought to follow--he alone who is acquainted with the dicta of every one of them can be such a guide: all others must be inadequate.