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Meeting with no success, he made a journey to Cyrene, offering as his reason payment of vows to Ammon,1 but actually for the purpose of bribing the oracle; and he took with him a great sum of money with which he hoped to win over the attendants of the shrine.

1 Zeus-Ammon, whose shrine was in the Oasis of Siwah.

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