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[3] They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner1 who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus. They had reconciled their previous hostility with him; Onomacritus had been banished from Athens by Pisistratus' son Hipparchus, when he was caught by Lasus2 of Hermione in the act of interpolating into the writings of Musaeus an oracle showing that the islands off Lemnos would disappear into the sea.

1 The word sometimes means “a diviner”; here, probably, rather a “selecter and publisher” of existing oracles, by recitation or otherwise.

2 A poet and musician, Pindar's teacher.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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