After using these enchantments and many others besides on the river, they passed over it at the Nine Ways in Edonian country, 1 by the bridges which they found thrown across the Strymon. When they learned that Nine Ways was the name of the place, they buried alive that number of boys and maidens, children of the local people.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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