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The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid from them came and made
their request, acted as follows. They despatched messengers in the
name of their state to Delphi, and asked the god, whether it would
make for their welfare if they should lend succour to Greece.
"Fools!" replied the Pythoness, "do ye not still complain of the
woes which the assisting of Menelaus cost you at the hands of angry
Minos? How wroth was he, when, in spite of their having lent you no
aid towards avenging his death at Camicus, you helped them to avenge
the carrying off by a barbarian of a woman from Sparta!" When this
answer was brought from Delphi to the Cretans, they thought no more
of assisting the Greeks.
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