Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 19

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χρεωμένοισι γὰρ Ἀργείοισι ἐν Δελφοῖσι περὶ σωτηρίης τῆς πόλιος τῆς σφετέρης ἐχρήσθη ἐπίκοινον χρηστήριον, τὸ μὲν ἐς αὐτοὺς τοὺς Ἀργείους φέρον, τὴν δὲ παρενθήκην ἔχρησε ἐς Μιλησίους. τὸ μέν νυν ἐς τοὺς Ἀργείους ἔχον, [2] ἐπεὰν κατὰ τοῦτο γένωμαι τοῦ λόγου, τότε μνησθήσομαι: τὰ δὲ τοῖσι Μιλησίοισι οὐ παρεοῦσι ἔχρησε, ἔχει ὧδε. “καὶ τότε δή, Μίλητε κακῶν ἐπιμήχανε ἔργων,
πολλοῖσιν δεῖπνόν τε καὶ ἀγλαὰ δῶρα γενήσῃ,
σαὶ δ᾽ ἄλοχοι πολλοῖσι πόδας νίψουσι κομήταις,
νηοῦ δ᾽ ἡμετέρου Διδύμοις ἄλλοισι μελήσει.
” [3] τότε δὴ ταῦτα τοὺς Μιλησίους κατελάμβανε, ὁκότε ἄνδρες μὲν οἱ πλεῦνες ἐκτείνοντο ὑπὸ τῶν Περσέων ἐόντων κομητέων, γυναῖκες δὲ καὶ τέκνα ἐν ἀνδραπόδων λόγῳ ἐγίνοντο, ἱρὸν δὲ τὸ ἐν Διδύμοισι καὶ ὁ νηός τε καὶ τὸ χρηστήριον. συληθέντα ἐνεπίμπρατο. τῶν δ᾽ ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ τούτῳ χρημάτων πολλάκις μνήμην ἑτέρωθι τοῦ λόγου ἐποιησάμην.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- C.E. Graves, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 4, CHAPTER XC
Cross-references to this page (6):
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, DIDYMA or BRANCHIDAI (Didim, previously Yoran) Turkey.
- Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors, Their Careers and Extant Works, The Archaic Period
- Harper's, Paeonius
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ORA´CULUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BRA´NCHIDAE
- Smith's Bio, Paeo'nius
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (12):
- LSJ, ἑτέρ-ωθι
- LSJ, ἔχω
- LSJ, ἐπιμήχα^ν-ος
- LSJ, φέρω
- LSJ, κομήτης
- LSJ, λόγος
- LSJ, μιμνήσκω
- LSJ, να_ός
- LSJ, νίζω
- LSJ, παρεν-θήκη
- LSJ, τέκνον
- LSJ, χρηστήριον

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