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No sooner had he thus spoken than he proceeded to hurry forward the
business. The Samians pledged their faith upon the spot; and oaths
of alliance were exchanged between them and the Greeks. This done,
two of the ambassadors forthwith sailed away; as for Hegesistratus,
Leotychides kept him to accompany his own fleet, for he considered his
name to be a good omen. The Greeks abode where they were that day,
and on the morrow sacrificed, and found the victims favourable. Their
soothsayer was Deiphonus, the son of Evenius, a man of Apollonia -
I mean the Apollonia which lies upon the Ionian Gulf.
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