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TO THE READER.
proud and wealthy states of ^Egina, Samos, and Miletus, had each one to itself.*
They indeed readily assimilated the gods of other nations to their own, and joined
in any rites, which local or temporary fashion employed to propitiate them; but
these common temples, erected in distant countries to their national deities, served
to nourish and strengthen the spirit of national attachment between one Greek state
and another, and to consecrate, under the venerable forms of religious union, the
ties of private interest and mercantile combination.
* Herodot. 1. ii. S. 17 8.
TO THE READER.
proud and wealthy states of ^Egina, Samos, and Miletus, had each one to itself.*
They indeed readily assimilated the gods of other nations to their own, and joined
in any rites, which local or temporary fashion employed to propitiate them; but
these common temples, erected in distant countries to their national deities, served
to nourish and strengthen the spirit of national attachment between one Greek state
and another, and to consecrate, under the venerable forms of religious union, the
ties of private interest and mercantile combination.
* Herodot. 1. ii. S. 17 8.