| In Mari itself the best attested are actually prophetesses who spoke for female deities. |
| This I heard from the priests at Thebes, and what follows is said by the prophetesses 52 of Dodona. |
| He allowed that good philosophy could be extracted at shrines from inspired oracles uttered by Apollo through his prophetesses. |
| The prophetesses peer into the future, and see nothing untoward, but they, too, dream and awake screaming. |
| The Sybil of Cumae, like all good prophetesses, was not entirely specific in her utterings. |
| What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy. |
