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There are many offerings of Croesus' in Hellas, and not only those of which I have spoken. There is a golden tripod at Thebes in Boeotia, which he dedicated to Apollo of Ismenus; at Ephesus1 there are the oxen of gold and the greater part of the pillars; and in the temple of Proneia at Delphi, a golden shield.2 All these survived to my lifetime; but other of the offerings were destroyed.

1 The temple at Ephesus was founded probably in Alyattes' reign, and not completed till the period of the Graeco-Persian War.

2 The temple of Athena Proneia (= before the shrine) was situated outside the temple of Apollo.

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