The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . cedaemonians were about toabandon them, for they were in want of money. The Siphnianswere at that time the richest of all the islanders, having such goldand silver mines, that from the tenth of the money accruing fromthem, a treasure was laid up at Delphi equal to the richest; andthey used every year to divide the product of the mines. Whenthey established this treasure, they asked the oracle, whether theirpresent prosperity would continue with them for a long time ; but EXPEDITIONS OF CAMBYSES. l55 the Pythian answered
The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus . cedaemonians were about toabandon them, for they were in want of money. The Siphnianswere at that time the richest of all the islanders, having such goldand silver mines, that from the tenth of the money accruing fromthem, a treasure was laid up at Delphi equal to the richest; andthey used every year to divide the product of the mines. Whenthey established this treasure, they asked the oracle, whether theirpresent prosperity would continue with them for a long time ; but EXPEDITIONS OF CAMBYSES. l55 the Pythian answered as follows: When the Prytaneum in Siph-nus shall be white, and the market white-fronted, then shall therebe need of a prudent man to guard against a wooden ambush anda crimson herald. The market and Prytaneum of the Siphnianswere then adorned with Parian marble. As soon as the Samiansreached Siphnus, they sent ambassadors to the city in a ship which,like all ships at that time, was painted red. And this was whatthe Pythian meant by a wooden ambush and a crimson THE OBELISK. These ambassadors requested the Siphnians to lend them tentalents; the Siphnians refused the loan, and the Samians proceededto ravage their territory. The Siphnians were beaten, and com-pelled to give a hundred talents. I have dwelt longer on the affairs of the Samians, because theyhave the three greatest works that have been accomplished by allthe Greeks. The first is a mountain, one hundred and fifty 156 HERODOTUS. orgyse in height, in which is dug a tunnel, beginning from thebase, with an opening at each side. The length of the excavationis seven stades, and the height and breadth eight feet each ;through the whole length of it is dug another excavation twentycubits deep, and three feet broad, through which the water con-veyed by pipes reaches the city, drawn from a copious architect of this excavation was a Megarian, Eupalinus, sonof Naustrophus. The second work is a mound in the se
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