VENTRILOQUISM

Plutarch (tom. ii., p. 397.D.) has these words: [Greek: "Ou gar esti theou hae gaerus oude ho phthoggos, oude he lexis, oude to metron, alla taes yunaikos: ekeinos de monas tas phantasias paristaesi, kau phos en tae psuchae poiei pros to mellon."] If that be the passage referred to be Rollin, nothing is said there about ventriloquism. The Scholiast on Aristoph. (*Plut.* 39.) tells us how the Pythian received the *afflatus*, but says nothing about her *speaking* from her belly: He only has [Greek: "Ta taes manteias hae mallon manias ephtheggeto hraemata."] In another place of Plutarch (tom. ii.…