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This was the beginning of the Aeginetans' long-standing debt of enmity against the Athenians. The Epidaurians' land bore no produce. For this reason they inquired at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi concerning this calamity, and the priestess bade them set up images of Damia and Auxesia, 1 saying that if they so did their luck would be better. The Epidaurians then asked in addition whether they should make the images of bronze or of stone, and the priestess bade them do neither, but make them of the wood of the cultivated olive.
This was the beginning of the Aeginetans' long-standing debt of enmity against the Athenians. The Epidaurians' land bore no produce. For this reason they inquired at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi concerning this calamity, and the priestess bade them set up images of Damia and Auxesia, 1 saying that if they so did their luck would be better. The Epidaurians then asked in addition whether they should make the images of bronze or of stone, and the priestess bade them do neither, but make them of the wood of the cultivated olive.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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