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The Greek fleet was now on its way to Delos; but Mardonius still
abode in his winter-quarters in Thessaly. When he was about to leave
them, he despatched a man named Mys, a European by birth, to go and
consult the different oracles, giving him orders to put questions
everywhere to all the oracles whereof he found it possible to make
trial. What it was that he wanted to know, when he gave Mys these
orders, I am not able to say, for no account has reached me of the
matter; but for my own part, I suppose that he sent to inquire
concerning the business which he had in hand, and not for any other purpose.
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