Histories (Godley translation)/Book 8
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[4] So after the watch of the Thessalians saw them first, they were overcome with fear, because they thought it to be a sign of sorts, and after the watch the army itself was overcome with fear in the same way, so that the Phocians got possession of four thousand dead and shields; they dedicated half of which in Abae, and half in Delphi: [5] and a tenth of their loot from battle became the statues surrounding the tripod in front of the Delphian temple, and other such statues in Abae.
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And going there from the river Cephisus, they kept on destroying everything, and they set fire to the city of Drymus, as well as Charadra, Erochus, Tethronius, Amphicaea, Neon, Pediae, Triteae, Elateia, Hyampolis, Parapotamioi and Abae, where the rich oracle of Apollo was, equipped with both treasures and a wealth of gifts; both then and now still there is an oracle there. And after they plundered it, they burnt it: and, chasing, they captured several of the Phocians, near the mountains, and killed some of the women because they violated them with many.
134[edit]
[1] This Mys, apparently, went to Lebadea, and bribed one of the men of the local people to go down to the oracle of Trophonius, and he went to Abae in Phocis, to the oracle; though first of all he went to Thebes, where he consulted with Apollo Ismenius - doing so there is exactly like in Olympia, which is by sacrifice - and after he bribed a stranger (and not a Theban) with money, this stranger laid down to sleep at the oracle of Amphiraus.