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| | The History of Herodotus, volume 1, by Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | So these were gathering themselves together; but the Athenians in the city, so long as Peisistratos was collecting the money, and afterwards when he took possession of Marathon, made no account of it; but when they heard that he was marching from Marathon towards the city, then they went to the rescue against him. |
 | | These then were going in full force to fight against the returning exiles, and the forces of Peisistratos, as they went towards the city starting from Marathon, met them just when they came to the temple of Athene Pallenis, and there encamped opposite to them. |
 | | Then moved by divine guidance[75] there came into the presence of Peisistratos Amphilytos the Arcarnanian,[76] a soothsayer, who approaching him uttered an oracle in hexameter verse, saying thus: "But now the cast hath been made and the net hath been widely extended, And in the night the tunnies will dart through the moon-lighted waters." 63. |
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