The early Socratics were in the habit of swearing in this way, but Rhadamanthys was the first to prohibit oaths by the gods, [ordaining] instead swearing by goose and dog and ram and suchlike. Lampon was a sacrificer, oraclemonger and seer, with whom they also connect the Athenian colony to Sybaris. He used to swear by the goose, a supposedly prophetic bird. It is therefore said of those deceiving someone with an oath.
[Note] that Sybaris [was] an Athenian colony.