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[6] In addition to these statements the pious say further that except for those who committed the sacrilege no one perished in the disaster.1 Concerning the earthquakes and floods which occurred we shall rest content with what has been said.

1 One might ask about the guilt of the crews of the ten Spartan ships which chanced to be anchored off Helice and were destroyed by the tidal wave (cp. Aelian De Nat. Animal. 11.19 and Wesseling's note on this passage of Diodorus). For the fate of similar arguments see Voltaire, Candide 5.

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