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[7] Some of the historians say that the pillaged property was not less than the sums acquired by Alexander1 in the treasure chambers of the Persians. The generals on the staff of Phalaecus took steps even to dig up the temple, because some one said that there was a treasure chamber in it containing much gold and silver, and they zealously dug up the ground about the hearth and the tripod. The man who gave information about the treasure offered as witness the most famous and ancient of poets Homer, who says in a certain passage:“ Nor all the wealth beneath the stony floor that lies
Where Phoebus, archer god, in rocky Pytho dwells.
”Hom. Il. 9.404-405

1 See Book 17.66 and 71.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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