"Explain it to me: for your words seem strange indeed." [17] "Because," he answered, "in the first place, instead of asking the god for all I wanted I must needs put him to the test, to see if he could speak the truth.

This," he added, "no man of honour could endure, let be the godhead.

Those who are doubted cannot love their doubters.

[18] And yet he stood the test; for though the things I did were strange, and I was many leagues from Delphi, he knew them all.

And so I resolved to consult him about my children.