14/25 But time has exposed the cheat. By the ruined shrine the worshipper may now see the secret steps by which the priest got to the back of the statue, and the pipe entering the back of its head through which he whispered the answers of the oracle. "Nemo tam puer est at Cerberum timeat, et tenebras," &c.] [Footnote 17: Fragm. xxxiv.] [Footnote 18: Lactantius, _Divin.Inst_.i. |