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[3] Hard by is the Prytaneum (Town-hall), in which the laws of Solon are inscribed, and figures are placed of the goddesses Peace and Hestia (Hearth), while among the statues is Autolycus the pancratiast.1 For the likenesses of Miltiades and Themistocles have had their titles changed to a Roman and a Thracian.

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    • W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, 6.103
    • Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO HESTIA
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