The Histories of HerodotusD. Appleton, 1899 - 568 pages |
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... oracle ; they reigned for twenty - two generations , a space of five hun- dred and five years , the son succeeding to the father to the time of Candaules , son of Myrsus . This Candaules was enamoured of his own wife , and being so ...
... oracle ; they reigned for twenty - two generations , a space of five hun- dred and five years , the son succeeding to the father to the time of Candaules , son of Myrsus . This Candaules was enamoured of his own wife , and being so ...
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... oracle at Delphi . For when the Lydians resented the murder of Candaules , and were up in arms , the partisans of Gyges and the other Lydians came to the following agreement , that if the oracle should pronounce him king of the Lydians ...
... oracle at Delphi . For when the Lydians resented the murder of Candaules , and were up in arms , the partisans of Gyges and the other Lydians came to the following agreement , that if the oracle should pronounce him king of the Lydians ...
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... oracle , either from the advice of some friend or because it appeared right to himself to send and 1 Assesus was a small town dependent on Miletus . Minerva had a temple there , and hence took the name of the Assesian Minerva ...
... oracle , either from the advice of some friend or because it appeared right to himself to send and 1 Assesus was a small town dependent on Miletus . Minerva had a temple there , and hence took the name of the Assesian Minerva ...
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... oracle in writing . Now what were the answers given by the other oracles , is mentioned by none ; but no sooner had ... oracle at Delphi alone was a real oracle , because it had discovered what he had done . For when he had sent persons ...
... oracle in writing . Now what were the answers given by the other oracles , is mentioned by none ; but no sooner had ... oracle at Delphi alone was a real oracle , because it had discovered what he had done . For when he had sent persons ...
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... oracle of Amphiaraus , I can not say what answer it gave to the Lydians , who performed the accustomed rites at the temple ; for noth- ing else is related than that he considered this also to be a true oracle . After this he endeavoured ...
... oracle of Amphiaraus , I can not say what answer it gave to the Lydians , who performed the accustomed rites at the temple ; for noth- ing else is related than that he considered this also to be a true oracle . After this he endeavoured ...
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