Histories, 1.49

Herodotus  translated by G. C. Macaulay

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49This then was the answer given to Croesus from Delphi; and as regards the answer of Amphiaraos, I cannot tell what he replied to the Lydians after they had done the things customary in his temple,[43] for there is no record of this any more than of the others, except only that Croesus thought that he also[44] possessed a true Oracle.

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Notes

  • [43] See viii. 134.

  • [44] {kai touton}, i.e. Amphiaraos: many Editors retain the readings of the Aldine edition, {kai touto}, "that in this too he had found a true Oracle."