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[2] Those of them who escaped were driven into the precinct of Zeus of Armies at Labraunda,1 a large and a holy grove of plane-trees. (The Carians are the only people whom we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus by this name.) When they had been driven there, they deliberated how best to save themselves, whether it would be better for them to surrender to the Persians or to depart from Asia.

1 Site of the cult of a war-god, whose emblem was the λάβρυς or battle-axe.

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