Note 128 — Chapter I · THE KING OF THE WOOD
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Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 278 sqq.; Pliny, Nat. Hist. iv. 91; Strabo, vi. 1. 15, p. 264; Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, 16. In Apollo’s temple at Delphi there were dedicated a radish of gold, a beet of silver, and a turnip of lead, which was thought to signify the respective value of these vegetables (Pliny, Nat. Hist. xix. 86). A poet speaks of tithes and first-fruits hung up for Apollo on a high pillar at Delphi (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. i. 24. 164, p. 419, ed. Potter).