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Hither therefore the Cymaeans sent their deputies to make inquiry at
the shrine, "What the gods would like them to do with the Lydian,
Pactyas?" The oracle told them, in reply, to give him up to the
Persians. With this answer the messengers returned, and the people
of Cymd were ready to surrender him accordingly; but as they were
preparing to do so, Aristodicus, son of Heraclides, a citizen of
distinction, hindered them. He declared that he distrusted the
response, and believed that the messengers had reported it falsely;
until at last another embassy, of which Aristodicus himself made
part, was despatched, to repeat the former inquiry concerning Pactyas.
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