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[12] The rest of the story I cannot believe, either that the temple was the work of Hephaestus, or the legend about the golden singers, referred to by Pindar in his verses about this bronze temple:—“Above the pediment sang
Golden Charmers.
Pindar, work unknownThese words, it seems to me, are but an imitation of Homer's1 account of the Sirens. Neither did I find the accounts agree of the way this temple disappeared. Some say that it fell into a chasm in the earth, others that it was melted by fire.

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