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Question 48. Why is the temple of Ulysses in
Lacedaemon built hard by the monument of the Leucippides?
Solution. One Ergiaeus, of the posterity of Diomedes,
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by the persuasion of Temenus stole the Palladium from
Argos, Leager being conscious of and accessory to the
felony, for he was one of the intimates of Temenus.
Afterward Leager, by reason of a feud betwixt him and
Temenus, went over into Lacedaemon and transported the
Palladium thither. The kings receive him readily, and
place the Palladium next to the temple of the Leucippides, and sending to Delphi consult the oracle about its
safety and preservation. The oracle answered that they
must make one of them that stole it the keeper of it. So
they erected there the monument of Ulysses, especially
since they supposed that hero was related to the city by
the marriage of Penelope.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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