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Question 47. Why is it spoken by way of proverb
amongst the Eleans, ‘Thou sufferest worse things than
Sambicus’?
Solution. It is said that one Sambicus an Elean, having
many comrades with him, did break off many of the devoted bronze offerings placed in Olympia and disposed of
them, and at length robbed the temple of Diana the Bish
opess (which temple is in Elis, and is called Aristarchaeum.
Presently after the committing of this sacrilege, he was
taken and tormented the space of a year, being examined
concerning all his accessories, and so died; hence this
proverb arose from his suffering.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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