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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 3 (search)
The founder of the temple, according to old
tradition, was king Aerias, though some represent this as the name of the
goddess herself. Later accounts tell us that the temple was consecrated by
Cinyras, and that the goddess herself after her birth from the sea was
wafted to this spot, but that the wisdom and craft of the diviners was a
foreign importation introduced by Tamiras of Cilicia; and that it was agreed that the descendants of
both families should preside over the worship. Afterwards, that the royal
family might not be without some superiority over the foreign stock, the
strangers relinquished the craft which they had themselves introduced. The
priest of the line of Cinyras is alone consulted. The victims are such as
each worshipper has vowed, but males are selected; the surest prognostics
are seen in the entrails of kids. It is forbidden to pour blood on the
altar; the place of sacrifice is served only with prayers and pure flame,
and though it stands in the open