(Plato, in Apolog. Socrat. c. 19, p. 121, 122, edit. Fischer.) The familiar examples, which Socrates urges in his Dialogue with Theages, (Platon. Opera, tom. i. p. 128, 129, edit. Hen. Stephan.) are beyond the reach of human foresight; and the divine inspiration ( the
of the philosopher is clearly taught in the Memorabilia of Xenophon.
The ideas of the most rational Platonists are expressed by Cicero, (de Divinat. i. 54), and in the 14th and 15th Dissertations of Maximus of Tyre(p. 153 - 172, edit. Davis.).