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A little way past the grave of Themistocles is a precinct sacred to Lacius, a hero, a parish called after him Laciadae, and the tomb of Nicocles of Tarentum, who won a unique reputation as a harpist. There is also an altar of Zephyrus and a sanctuary of Demeter and her daughter. With them Athena and Poseidon are worshipped. There is a legend that in this place Phytalus welcomed Demeter in his home, for which act the goddess gave him the fig tree. This story is borne out by the inscription on the grave of Phytalus:—“Hero and king, Phytalus here welcome gave to Demeter,
August goddess, when first she created fruit of the harvest;
Sacred fig is the name which mortal men have assigned it.
Whence Phytalus and his race have gotten honours immortal.
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Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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- Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO DEMETER
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), DONA´RIA
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), VECTIGA´LIA TEMPLO´RUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), A´TTICA
- Smith's Bio, Phytalus
- Smith's Bio, Spercheius
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- LSJ, Δημήτηρ
- LSJ, Πυ_θιο-νίκης
- LSJ, συ_κέα
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