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These men, the Delphians maintain, were two Heroes belonging to the
place - by name Phylacus and Autonous - each of whom has a sacred
precinct near the temple; one, that of Phylacus, hard by the road
which runs above the temple of Pronaia; the other, that of
Autonous, near the Castalian spring, at the foot of the peak called
Hyampeia. The blocks of stone which fell from Parnassus might still
be seen in my day; they lay in the precinct of Pronaia, where they
stopped, after rolling through the host of the barbarians. Thus was
this body of men forced to retire from the temple.
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