| #### CHAPTER 59 |

| #### #### I myself saw Cadmeian characters engraved upon some tripods in the temple of Apollo Ismenias in Boeotian Thebes, most of them shaped like the Ionian. One of the tripods has the inscription following: #### Me did Amphitryon place, from the far Teleboans coming. #### This would be about the age of Laius, the son of Labdacus, the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus. ####  |