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Where Phoebus, archer god, in rocky Pytho dwells.
”Hom. Il. 9.404-405 [8] But as the soldiers attempted to dig about the tripod, great earthquakes occurred and roused fear in the hearts of the Phocians, and since the gods clearly indicated in advance the punishment they would visit upon the temple-robbers, the soldiers desisted from their efforts. The leader of this sacrilege, the aforementioned Philon, was promptly punished as he deserved for his crime against the god.
1 347/6 B.C.
2 A town, usually called Hyampolis, situated at the entrance to Phocis from Thessaly and Boeotia; cp. Hdt. 8.28.
3 See Paus. 10.2.7.
4 Diodorus is inconsistent regarding Philomelus. In chap. 28.2 he makes the same statement as here; in chap. 30.1 he says the opposite.
5 Cp. Hdt. 1.50 and Plut. De Pythiae Oraculis 401e. F. For a discussion of values see Boeckh, Staatshaushandlung der Athener, 1(3). 10 (2nd edition translated by G. C. Lewis, The Political Economy of Athens, 10).
6 See Book 17.66 and 71.
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