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My own opinion of these matters is as follows: I think that, if it
be true that the Phoenicians carried off the holy women, and sold them
for slaves, the one into Libya and the other into Greece, or
Pelasgia (as it was then called), this last must have been sold to
the Thesprotians. Afterwards, while undergoing servitude in those
parts, she built under a real oak a temple to Jupiter, her thoughts
in her new abode reverting - as it was likely they would do, if she
had been an attendant in a temple of Jupiter at Thebes - to that
particular god. Then, having acquired a knowledge of the Greek
tongue, she set up an oracle. She also mentioned that her sister had
been sold for a slave into Libya by the same persons as herself.
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