It is often said by modern commentators that the ancients were generally open to the miraculous and the divine, being pre-scientific and all, and they uncritically accepted reports of visions, visitations, and dreams of of the gods. I found it interesting then to discover what Sextus Empiricus said: 'Madmen and mystics seem to hear divinities, while we do not' (PH 1.101).
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