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Ἀθήνῃσι μὲν ἐν τοῦ γηγενοῦς Ἐρεχθέως τῷ σηκῷ ἱερά τις ὑπ᾽ Ἀθηνᾶς φυτευθεῖσα ἐλαία κατὰ [p. 249] τὴν ἔριν τὴν γενομένην αὐτῇ πρὸς Ποσειδῶνα περὶ τῆς χώρας, ἅμα τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῖς ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ οὖσιν ἐμπρησθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὅτε τῆς ἀκροπόλεως ἐκράτησαν, δευτέρᾳ τῆς ἐμπρήσεως ἡμέρᾳ βλαστὸν ἐκ τοῦ στελέχους ἀνῆκεν ὅσον τε πηχυαῖον, δῆλον ἅπασι ποιῆσαι βουλομένων τῶν θεῶν, ὅτι ταχέως ἑαυτὴν ἡ πόλις ἀναλαβοῦσα βλαστοὺς ἀντὶ τῶν παλαιῶν ἐξοίσει νέους.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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