Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 179

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The following story is also told: it is said that Jason, when the Argo had been built at the foot of Pelion, put aboard besides a hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi. [2] But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and carried him away to Libya; and before he saw land, he came into the shallows of the Tritonian lake. There, while he could find no way out yet, Triton (the story goes) appeared to him and told Jason to give him the tripod, promising to show the sailors the channel and send them on their way unharmed. [3] Jason did, and Triton then showed them the channel out of the shallows and set the tripod in his own temple; but first he prophesied over it, declaring the whole matter to Jason's comrades: namely, that should any descendant of the Argo's crew take away the tripod, then a hundred Greek cities would be founded on the shores of the Tritonian lake. Hearing this (it is said) the Libyan people of the country hid the tripod.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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Commentary references to this page (4):
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 3.287
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 3.299
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 3.378
- W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), 9.80
Cross-references to this page (6):
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CI´VITAS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CARTHA´GO
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MA´CHLYES
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), TRITON
- Smith's Bio, Trito
- Smith's Bio, Triton
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (15):
- LSJ, Τρίτων
- LSJ, ἀπήμων
- LSJ, ἀποφέρω
- LSJ, ἀπορ-έω
- LSJ, βράχεα
- LSJ, δείκνυμι
- LSJ, διέκ-πλοος
- LSJ, ἔκγονος
- LSJ, ἐξαγωγ-εύς
- LSJ, ἐξεργ-άζομαι
- LSJ, ἐπιθεσπ-ίζω
- LSJ, εἰστίθημι
- LSJ, κατεῖδον
- LSJ, συμπλέω
- LSJ, ὑπολαμβάνω

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