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Potidaea was under the special protection of the god from whom it was named, Posidon, whose image, taken perhaps from this very statue (Head, H. N. p. 212), was on its coins. Such extraordinary tidal waves were naturally ascribed to him, as were earthquakes (vii. 129. 4). No doubt it is this remarkable sign of the wrath of the god which leads H. to dwell on an unimportant episode.

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