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And putting to sea from Ilium, he touched at
Ismarus, a city of the Cicones, and captured it in war, and pillaged it, sparing Maro
alone, who was priest of Apollo.1 And when the Cicones who inhabited the mainland heard of it,
they came in arms to withstand him, and having lost six men from each ship he put to sea
and fled.
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1 As to the adventures of Ulysses with the Cicones, see Hom. Od. 9.39-66. The Cicones were a Thracian tribe; Xerxes and his army marched through their country （Hdt. 7.110）. As to Maro, the priest of Apollo at Ismarus, see Hom. Od. 9.196-211. He dwelt in a wooded grove of Apollo, and bestowed splendid presents and twelve jars of red honey-sweet wine, in return for the protection which he and his wife received at the hands of Ulysses.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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