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9Others, however, say that the island was not taken in this way, but that Solon first received this oracle from the god at Delphi:—
Thereupon Solon sailed by night to the island and made sacrifices to the heroes Periphemus and Cychreus.“The tutelary heroes of the land where once they lived, with sacred rites
Propitiate, whom the Asopian plain now hides in its bosom;
There they lie buried with their faces toward the setting sun.”
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