1. Silenus is said to have possessed a gift of prophecy, but only when he was drunk. A mixed attribute. Prophecy is neither intelligence nor wisdom; if anything, it is an observation that things falling within the same space determine the meaning of that space — causality, in this case, irrelevant, not worth an investigation. In the Greek context, prophecy comes of a consumed goddess, becomes a recessive trait — sometimes inherited, sometimes suspiciously random.