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Besides the marks of favour already mentioned, Amasis also enriched
with offerings many of the Greek temples. He sent to Cyrene a statue
of Minerva covered with plates of gold, and a painted likeness of
himself. To the Minerva of Lindus he gave two statues in stone, and
a linen corslet well worth inspection. To the Samian Juno he
presented two statues of himself, made in wood, which stood in the
great temple to my day, behind the doors. Samos was honoured with
these gifts on account of the bond of friendship subsisting between
Amasis and Polycrates, the son of Aeaces: Lindus, for no such
reason, but because of the tradition that the daughters of Danaus
touched there in their flight from the sons of Aegyptus, and built the
temple of Minerva. Such were the offerings of Amasis. He likewise
took Cyprus, which no man had ever done before, and compelled it to
pay him a tribute.
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