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The priests are nervous about the oracle. They’ll need all their experience to decide how to express it tactfully ... They do not know that yesterday the envoys heard serious news: the “oracle” was pronounced in Rome; the partition was decided there. www.onassis.org/initiatives/...

May 6, 2025, 7:00 PM

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