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[3] For when he grew to adulthood, he went to Delphi to inquire about his voice; and the priestess in answer gave him this: ““Battus, you have come for a voice; but Lord Phoebus Apollo
Sends you to found a city in Libya, nurse of sheep,”
” just as if she addressed him using the Greek word for “king,” “Basileus, you have come for a voice,” et cetera.

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