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These are most notable of their usages. They worship no gods but Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis.1 Their princes, however, unlike the rest of their countrymen, worship Hermes above all gods and swear only by him, claiming him for their ancestor.

1 Herodotus as usual identifies foreign with Greek deities: v. How and Wells ad loc.

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