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ἀνέθηκε. Nymphis (a historian of the third century, fr. 15; F. H. G. iii. 15) says that the bowl (ἐπὶ στόματι τοῦ Πόντου) was there before Pausanias, and that he only put his name on it. This story may be an invention suggested by Thuc. i. 132. 2 (but cf. i. 51. 4 for a similar Lacedaemonian appropriation). It is odd that H. does not mention here the great bowl at Delphi (i. 51. 2), which was of the same size (i. e. holding over 5,000 gallons). For a curiously similar story of a primitive census cf. Wallace, Malay Archipelago (ed. 1869), i. 182-4.

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