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Such now was the conduct of the Athenians toward the divine powers, and that too though they boasted that Apollo was their tutelary god and progenitor.1 And the Lacedaemonians, though they had consulted the oracle of Apollo at Delphi and through it come to possess their constitution2 which is admired of all the world, though even now they still interrogate the god on matters of supreme importance,3 had the effrontery to become partners in crime of those who pillaged the sanctuary.

1 Through Ion, son of Apollo and Creusa.

2 See Plut. Lycurgus 5.3, esp. καὶ καταινεῖν ἔφη τὸν θεὸν ἣ πολὺ κρατίστη τῶν ἄλλων ἔσται πολιτειῶν.

3 Cp. Book 14.13.3: τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους μάλιστα τοῖς μαντείοις προσέχοντας.

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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