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I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos, his master being Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus;
I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and +Black Sea [38,42] (sea) Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos, his master being Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus;
[2] then, after being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now the
Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this
Salmoxis knew
Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the
Thracian; for he had consorted with
Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest
Greek teachers,
Pythagoras;
[3] therefore he made a hall, where he entertained and fed the leaders among his countrymen, and taught them that neither he nor his guests nor any of their descendants would ever die, but that they would go to a place where they would live forever and have all good things.
[4] While he was doing as I have said and teaching this doctrine, he was meanwhile making an underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the
Thracians, and went down into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years,
[5] while the
Thracians wished him back and mourned him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the
Thracians, and thus they came to believe what
Salmoxis had told them. Such is the
Greek story about him.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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