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发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 11.--OF THE STATUE OF APOLLO AT CUMAE, WHOSE TEARS ARE
SUPPOSED TO HAVE PORTENDED DISASTER
TO THE GREEKS, WHOM
THE GOD WAS UNABLE TO SUCCOR.
And it is still this weakness of the gods which is confessed
in the story of the Cuman Apollo, who is said to have wept
for four days during the war
with the Achaeans and King Aristonicus. And when the augurs
were alarmed at the portent, and had determined to cast the
statue into the sea, the
old men of Cumae interposed, and related that a similar
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