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Dorieus returned to the Peloponnese; whereupon Antichares the
Eleonian gave him a counsel (which he got from the oracle of
Laius), to "found the city of Heraclea in Sicily; the whole
country of Eryx belonged," he said, "to the Heracleids, since
Hercules himself conquered it." On receiving this advice, Dorieus
went to Delphi to inquire of the oracle whether he would take the place
to which he was about to go. The Pythoness prophesied that he would;
whereupon Dorieus went back to Libya, took up the men who had sailed
with him at the first, and proceeded upon his way along the shores of Italy.
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