Paying the priests to tell you want is an ancient practice. Great Men didn't drop stacks on the oracles to hear they should disband their armies and become hermits; although, dropping two stacks could ensure that was told to their enemies.
To be fair, the secret to being a good oracle is coming up with answers that can be interpreted multiple ways, so you can claim to be right whatever actually happens.
Paying the priests to tell you want is an ancient practice. Great Men didn't drop stacks on the oracles to hear they should disband their armies and become hermits; although, dropping two stacks could ensure that was told to their enemies.
To be fair, the secret to being a good oracle is coming up with answers that can be interpreted multiple ways, so you can claim to be right whatever actually happens.
If you invade the Persians, you will destroy a great empire.