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Rhodes (Greece) (search for this): book 13, chapter 84
It was not in the case
of Tellias only that such magnificence of wealth occurred, he says, but also of many other
inhabitants of Acragas. Antisthenes at any rate, who
was called Rhodus, when celebrating the marriage of
his daughter, gave a party to all the citizens in the courtyards where they all lived and more
than eight hundred chariots followed the bride in the procession; furthermore, not only the men
on horseback from the city itself but also many from neighbouring cities who had been invited
to the wedding joined to form the escort of the bride. But
most extraordinary of all, we are told, was the provision for the lighting: the altars in all
the temples and those in the courtyards throughout the city he had piled high with wood, and to
the shopkeepers he gave firewood and brush with orders that when a fire was kindled on the
acropolis they should all do the same; and when they did as
they were ordered, at the time when
Agrigentum (Italy) (search for this): book 13, chapter 84
It was not in the case
of Tellias only that such magnificence of wealth occurred, he says, but also of many other
inhabitants of Acragas. Antisthenes at any rate, who
was called Rhodus, when celebrating the marriage of
his daughter, gave a party to all the citizens in the courtyards where they all lived and more
than eight hundred chariots followed the bride in the procession; furthermore, not only the men
on horseback from the city itself but also many from neighb