Note 26 — BOOK II.
Rowland Smith translation
The address of the Pythia to Lycurgus was as follows:—
Thou com'st, Lycurgus, to this honour'd shrine Favour'd by Jove, and ev'ry power divine, Or God or mortal! how shall I decide? Doubtless to heav'n most dear and most allied. Herod. i. 65.—Beloe's Tr.