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| | Philostratus' Heroicus Selections |
 | | Before Palamedes, seasons as such did not yet exist, nor did the cycle of the months, and "year" was not yet a word for time; nor were there coins, nor weights and measures, nor counting, and the desire for knowledge did not yet exist, because there were no letters of the alphabet yet. |
 | | Odysseus, however, disagreed with Palamedes from that time on: there was an eclipse of the sun at Troy, and the army lost courage, because they took it as a sign from Zeus for the future. |
 | | Indeed, he reports that Palamedes did not make supplication, either to say anything pitiable or to lament, but after he had said, "I have pity on you, Truth, for you have perished before me," he held out his head to the stones as though knowing that Justice would be in his favor. |
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