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This story may well be another attempt to explain why Delphi was not plundered by the Persians. Mardonius' knowledge of this oracle seems inconsistent with the expedition to Delphi in the previous year (cf. viii. 35 f., and especially 39 n.), unless we assume that he only heard of it when inquiring of the oracles (viii. 133 f.) in the winter of 480-79 B. C.; cf. Busolt ii. 689. n. 3 and Hauvette, p. 389.

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