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Such is the tale told in these two towns. But this, I know, happened to the Metapontines in Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy , two hundred and forty years after the second disappearance of Aristeas, as reckoning made at +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus and +Metapontum [16.8333,40.3833] (Perseus) Metapontum shows me:
Such is the tale told in these two towns. But this, I know, happened to the Metapontines in Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy , two hundred and forty years after the second disappearance of Aristeas, as reckoning made at +Marmara Adasi [27.616,40.633] (island), Balikesir, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Proconnesus and +Metapontum [16.8333,40.3833] (Perseus) Metapontum shows me:
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Aristeas, so the
Metapontines say, appeared in their country and told them to set up an altar to
Apollo, and set beside it a statue bearing the name of
Aristeas the
Proconnesian; for, he said,
Apollo had come to their country alone of all
Italian lands, and he—the man who was now
Aristeas, but then when he followed the god had been a crow—had come with him.
[3] After saying this, he vanished. The
Metapontines, so they say, sent to
Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus)
Delphi
and asked the god what the vision of the man could mean; and the
Pythian priestess told them to obey the vision, saying that their fortune would be better.
[4] They did as instructed. And now there stands beside the image of
Apollo a statue bearing the name of
Aristeas; a grove of bay-trees surrounds it; the image is set in the marketplace. Let it suffice that I have said this much about
Aristeas.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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