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Podalirius went to Delphi and inquired of the
oracle where he should settle; and on receiving an oracle that he should settle in the
city where, if the encompassing heaven were to fall, he would suffer no harm, he settled
in that place of the Carian Chersonnese which is encircled by mountains all round the
horizon.1
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1 The same story is told, nearly in the same words, by Tzetzes （Scholiast on Lycophron 1047）, who probably copied Apollodorus. As to the settlement of Podalirius in Caria, compare Paus. 3.26.10; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Σύρνα. Podalirius was worshipped as a hero in Italy. He had a shrine at the foot of Mount Drium in Daunia, and the seer Calchas was worshipped in a shrine on the top of the same mountain, where his worshippers sacrificed black rams and slept in the skins of the victims for the purpose of receiving revelations in dreams. See Strab. 6.3.9; Lycophron, Cassandra 1047ff. Hence Lycophron said that Podalirius was buried in Italy, and for so saying he was severely taken to task by his learned but crabbed commentator Tzetzes, who roundly accused him of lying （Scholiast on Lycophron 1047）.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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