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Καλχηδονίους. Both this and Byzantium were Megarian colonies; the date of the founding of Byzantium was about 660 B. C., but the chronologers vary slightly; cf. Busolt, i. 472. Tacitus (Ann. xii. 63) attributes to the Delphic oracle this rebuke of the Calchedonians (cf. also Strabo 320). For an elaborate account of the advantages of the site of Byzantium cf. Polyb. iv. 38.

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