| #### CHAPTER 61 |

| #### #### The third tripod has also an inscription in hexameters, which runs thus: ####
| #### King Laodamas gave this tripod to far-seeing Phoebus, When he was set on the throne - a wondrous beautiful offering. |
#### #### It was in the reign of this Laodamas, the son of Eteocles, that the Cadmeians were driven by the Argives out of their country, and found a shelter with the Encheleans. The Gephyraeans at that time remained in the country, but afterwards they retired before the Boeotians, and took refuge at Athens, where they have a number of temples for their separate use, which the other Athenians are not allowed to enter - among the rest, one of Achaean Ceres, in whose honour they likewise celebrate special orgies. ####  |