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M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 530 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 346 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 60 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 58 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Ulysses, as some say, wandered about Libya, or,
as some say, about Sicily, or, as others say, about the ocean or about the Tyrrhenian
Sea.
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.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. 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