<GetPassage xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns="http://chs.harvard.edu/xmlns/cts">
            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:P.polles_1</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:P.polles_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="P"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="polles-bio-1" n="polles_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Polles</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Πόλλης</label>). Suidas mentions (<hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Μελάμπους</foreign>), that Melampus and Polles had acquired such
      celebrity as diviners, that there was a current proverb, "<hi rend="ital">It eeds a Melampus
       or a Polles to divine it.</hi>" He was a native of Aegae in Asia Minor, and wrote copiously
      on the subject of divination in all its forms; as on the prognostications to be derived from
      the objects that met a traveller on his way; from what occurred at home; regarding the result
      of diseases; and similar subjects, for which see Suidas (<hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>
      <foreign xml:lang="grc">Ὀιωνιστικήν, Πόλλης</foreign>). </p><byline>[<ref target="author.W.M.G">W.M.G</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
                </passage>
            </reply>
            </GetPassage>