that existed in the Mediterranean world.

收集和储存信息的最佳地点
These people knew more than anybody else about these things,

这里的人比别地的人知道得多
and so consulting that oracle was a very rational act indeed.

所以请示神谕实际上是有一定道理的
Okay, now suppose

好吧现在假设
you are the Oikistes,

你被选为Oikistes
you've gotten the permission from your city to go forward,

你得到了向前行进的许可
and you go to the Delphic Oracle and the Delphic Oracle says fine,

然后你去了特尔斐神示所神谕说一切顺利
by all means, go where you want to go.

这意味着你想去哪都可以
Next thing, you got to go home and you have to write up

接下来你回家写出一份
what amounts to a charter of foundation for the city,

相当于城市建设许可证一样的文件
which lays out how things are going to work in this city

上面说明城市将如何运行
--something about the governmental structure,

以及一些有关政府结构的文件