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After this the Athenians relate that they sent a trireme to Egina
with certain citizens on board, and that these men, who bore
commission from the state, landed in Egina, and sought to take the
images away, considering them to be their own, inasmuch as they were
made of their wood. And first they endeavoured to wrench them from
their pedestals, and so carry them off; but failing herein, they in
the next place tied ropes to them, and set to work to try if they could
haul them down. In the midst of their hauling suddenly there was a
thunderclap, and with the thunderclap an earthquake; and the crew of
the trireme were forthwith seized with madness, and, like enemies,
began to kill one another; until at last there was but one left, who
returned alone to Phalerum.
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