Herodotus, Histories, ed. A.D. Godley, 5.59

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I have myself seen Cadmean writing in the temple of Ismenian Apollo at Thebes [23.3333,38.325] (Perseus) Thebes of Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia engraved on certain tripods and for the most part looking like Ionian letters. On one of the tripods there is this inscription:

Amphitryon dedicated me from the spoils of¹ Teleboae.

This would date from about the time of Laius the son of Labdacus, grandson of Polydorus and great-grandson of Cadmus.

Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.

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[1] εἶδον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς Καδμήια γράμματα ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ Ἰσμηνίου ἐν Θήβῃσι τῇσι Βοιωτῶν, ἐπὶ τρίποσι τισὶ ἐγκεκολαμμένα, τὰ πολλὰ ὅμοια ἐόντα τοῖσι Ἰωνικοῖσι. ὁ μὲν δὴ εἷς τῶν τριπόδων ἐπίγραμμα ἔχει

ἀμφιτρύων μʼ ἀνέθηκʼ ἐνάρων ἀπὸ Τηλεβοάων.¹

²ταῦτα ἡλικίην εἴη ἂν κατὰ Λάιον τὸν Λαβδάκου τοῦ Πολυδώρου τοῦ Κάδμου.

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1. This is reading ἑλών, Meineke's change for the MSS ἐών.

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