Herodotus. Book 8, Chapter 39.
39. These men, the Delphians maintain, were two Heroes belonging to the place ‹ by name Phylacus and Autonoüs ‹ each of whom had 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 Autonoüs, 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 rest of the barbarians. Thus was this body of men forced to retire from the temple.
39. These men, the Delphians maintain, were two Heroes belonging to the place ‹ by name Phylacus and Autonoüs ‹ each of whom had 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 Autonoüs, 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 rest of the barbarians. Thus was this body of men forced to retire from the temple.
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Text source: Herodotus. Translated by George Rawlinson, first issued in 1858. Grammar and spelling updated by Michael Presky, 1993.
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