Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Cyprus” in text Library, book 2, chapter 5, section 11 of Apollodorus, Library:
... used to sacrifice strangers on an altar of Zeus in accordance with a certain oracle. For
Egypt was visited with dearth for nine years,
and Phrasius, a learned seer who had come from Cyprus , said that the dearth would cease if they slaughtered a
stranger man in honor of Zeus every year. Busiris began by slaughtering the seer himself
and continued to slaughter the strangers...
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† | Cyprus (Cyprus) | 486 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Cyprus | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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