Belly-diviner; what some people now [call] a Python,[1] but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner,[2] and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles.[3] Aristophanes [says] in Wasps: "mimicing the oracle and device of Eurycles."[4] And Philochorus, in the third [book] regarding the art of the diviner, [calls] ventriloquist women.[5]
These women used to call forth the souls of the dead. Saoul consulted one of these women, who called forth the soul of the prophet Samuel.[6]