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History of Greece, Volume 05 (of 12)

Note 216 — Chapter XLI · BATTLE OF SALAMIS. — RETREAT OF XERXES.

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Pausanias seems to consider these poor men somewhat presumptuous for pretending to understand the oracle better than Themistoklês,—Ἀθηναίων τοὺς πλέον τι ἐς τὸν χρησμὸν ἢ Θεμιστοκλῆς εἰδέναι νομίζοντας (i, 18, 2).

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