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It is said that the Athenians had called upon Boreas to aid the
Greeks, on account of a fresh oracle which had reached them,
commanding them to "seek help from their son-in-law." For
Boreas, according to the tradition of the Greeks, took to wife a
woman of Attica, viz., Orithyia, the daughter of Erechtheus. So
the Athenians, as the tale goes, considering that this marriage made
Boreas their son-in-law, and perceiving, while they lay with their
ships at Chalcis of Euboea, that the wind was rising, or, it may
be, even before it freshened, offered sacrifice both to Boreas and
likewise to Orithyia, entreating them to come to their aid and to
destroy the ships of the barbarians, as they did once before off Mount
Athos. Whether it was owing to this that Boreas fell with violence
on the barbarians at their anchorage I cannot say; but the Athenians
declare that they had received aid from Boreas before, and that it was
he who now caused all these disasters. They therefore, on their
return home, built a temple to this god on the banks of the Ilissus.
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