137. The impostor Alexander very strongly recommended the
oracle of Trophonius at Mallos, and those of Apollo at
Claros and Miletus (Lucian tom. ii. p. 236, edit. Reitz
[Alexand. c. 29]). The last of these, whose singular history
would furnish a very curious episode, was consulted by
Diocletian before he published his edicts of persecution
(Lactantius de M. P. c. 1 l ).