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[4] The ambassadors who were taking it fell in with pirates from the Lipari islands, were all taken prisoners, and brought to Lipara. But Timasitheus, the general of the Liparaeans, on learning what had taken place, rescued the ambassadors, gave them back the vessel of gold, and sent them on their way to Delphi. The men who were conveying the bowl dedicated it in the Treasury1 of the Massalians and returned to Rome.

1 Delphi was filled with such small buildings erected by individual Greek cities to house their dedications to the oracle.

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