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While the others put in at Salamis, the Athenians landed in their own country. When they arrived, they made a proclamation that every Athenian should save his children and servants as he best could. Thereupon most of them sent the members of their households to Troezen, and some to Aegina and Salamis.
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They were anxious to get everything out safely because they wished to obey the oracle, and also not least because of this: the Athenians say that a great snake lives in the sacred precinct guarding the acropolis. They say this and even put out monthly offerings for it as if it really existed. The monthly offering is a honey-cake.
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In all the time before this the honey-cake had been consumed, but this time it was untouched. When the priestess interpreted the significance of this, the Athenians were all the more eager to abandon the city since the goddess had deserted the acropolis. When they had removed everything to safety, they returned to the camp.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- LSJ, Τροιζήν
- LSJ, ἄψαυστ-ος
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- LSJ, ἐνδι^αιτ-άομαι
- LSJ, ἐπιμήνι-ος
- LSJ, ἐπιτελ-έω
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- LSJ, μελι^τό-εις
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