Summary

Herodotus Histories (original translation…

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.
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