Fall of the Oracle

ἔπατε τῷ βασιλε̃ι· χαμαὶ πέσε δαίδαλος αὐλά.

οὐκέτι Φοῖβος ἔχει καλύβαν, οὐ μάντιδα δάφνην,

οὐ παγὰν λαλέουσαν, ἀπέσβετο καὶ λάλον ὕδωρ.

Tell the Emperor the oracle’s hall has fallen

The god does not live here anymore, nor do the herbs that gave us Sight,

Nor the well-spring of prophecy; the waters still flow but they do not speak.

~ attrib. as the last oracle made by the Pythia at Delphi, 362 AD/CE [free translation, Harold Bishop, ‘Notes on the Cults of Delphi and Eleusis’, Sussex Agrarian History XVI (1990) 20-34, p. 20]