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It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten cities or nations; for before all this plain signs had been sent to the Chians.
It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten cities or nations; for before all this plain signs had been sent to the Chians.
[2] Of a band of a hundred youths whom they had sent to
Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi only two returned, ninety-eight being caught and carried off by pestilence; moreover, at about this same time, a little before the sea-fight, the roof fell in on boys learning their letters: of one hundred and twenty of them one alone escaped.
[3] These signs a god showed to them; then the sea-fight broke upon them and beat the city to its knees; on top of the sea-fight came
Histiaeus and the
Lesbians. Since the
Chians were in such a bad state, he easily subdued them.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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