The epithet of sage is due unto them because they are surpassing dexterous in the knowledge of most things.

And I give them the title of presage, for that they divinely foresee and certainly foretell future contingencies and events of things to come.

Sometimes I call them not maunettes, but monettes, from their wholesome monitions.

Whether it be so, ask Pythagoras, Socrates, Empedocles, and our master Ortuinus.

I furthermore praise and commend above the skies the ancient memorable institution of the pristine Germans, who ordained the responses and documents of old women to be highly extolled, most cordially reverenced, and prized at a rate in nothing inferior to the weight, test, and standard of the sanctuary.