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When there was a dispute about the golden tripod,1 the Pythian priestess delivered the following oracle:

1 The tripod, found in the sea by fishermen, was to be given to the wisest man, and passed through the hands of each of the Seven Wise Men, each insisting that another was wiser than himself. Cp. chap. 13.2 infra and Plut. Sol. 4.

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