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Sends you to found a city in Libya, nurse of sheep,”
” just as if she addressed him using the Greek word for “king,” “Basileus, you have come for a voice,” et cetera. [4] But he answered: “Lord, I came to you to ask about my speech; but you talk of other matters, things impossible to do; you tell me to plant a colony in Libya; where shall I get the power or strength of hand for it?” Battus spoke thus, but as the god would not give him another oracle and kept answering as before, he departed while the priestess was still speaking, and went away to Thera.
1 That is, the Stammerer.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), REX
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- Smith's Bio, Ba'ttus I.
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- LSJ, παλλα^κ-εύω
- LSJ, παραλαμβάνω
- LSJ, περίειμι
- LSJ, ποῖος
- LSJ, τις
- LSJ, τραυλ-ός
- LSJ, χράω
- LSJ, χρόνος