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Why is it that whenever the Samians are engaged in sacrificing to Hermes the Giver of Joy they
allow whoever so desires to steal from them and filch
their clothes?
[p. 243]
Because in obedience to an oracle they changed
their abode from Samos to Mycalê and supported
themselves by piracy there for ten years ; and after
this they sailed again to Samos and overcame their
enemies.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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