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Uoberts.
as tmik SAC WAT at B)I3DT»SIB,
CHAPTER III.
DIDYME.
The temple of the Branchidae, or, as it was afterwards named, of Apollo Didymaeus, with the
Oracle, was not very remote either by sea or land from Miletus,* being seated on the promon-
tory called Posideium, at the distance of eighteen or twenty stadia from the shore, and one hun-
dred and eighty from the city ;-f and both are recorded as occupying this spot before the Ionic
migration .J
The appellation Branchidae was derived from a very noted family so called, which continued
in possession of the priesthood until the time of Xerxes, deducing its pedigree from the real or
reputed founder and original proprietor, Branchus. Several of these sacred tribes flourished
in Greece, and intermixed, as this did, fable with their genealogy, raising their progenitor, to
conciliate a greater respect from the people, far above the level of common humanity. The story
* Strab. p. 634.
-j- Meju tie to Tloosidtov to MiXycnov, \fy\q £<r]< to pccvTim t»
AiSvpewg AiroXXuvog to ev Bpocy^tSccig, avoiQocvji o<rov oycjcoKoaStKoi
(Mss. oxju xcu SuSeKoe.) (rjotSmg. Ibid.
Oraculum a Posideio xviii. stad. Macrob. L. xvii.
Posideium Promontorium et oppidum Branchidavum ap-
pellatum, nunc Didymsei Apollinis, a littore stadiis viginti.
Et inde centum octoginta, Miletus Ioniae caput.—Plin. L. v.
p. 277.
X Pausan. L. vii. p. 525.
as tmik SAC WAT at B)I3DT»SIB,
CHAPTER III.
DIDYME.
The temple of the Branchidae, or, as it was afterwards named, of Apollo Didymaeus, with the
Oracle, was not very remote either by sea or land from Miletus,* being seated on the promon-
tory called Posideium, at the distance of eighteen or twenty stadia from the shore, and one hun-
dred and eighty from the city ;-f and both are recorded as occupying this spot before the Ionic
migration .J
The appellation Branchidae was derived from a very noted family so called, which continued
in possession of the priesthood until the time of Xerxes, deducing its pedigree from the real or
reputed founder and original proprietor, Branchus. Several of these sacred tribes flourished
in Greece, and intermixed, as this did, fable with their genealogy, raising their progenitor, to
conciliate a greater respect from the people, far above the level of common humanity. The story
* Strab. p. 634.
-j- Meju tie to Tloosidtov to MiXycnov, \fy\q £<r]< to pccvTim t»
AiSvpewg AiroXXuvog to ev Bpocy^tSccig, avoiQocvji o<rov oycjcoKoaStKoi
(Mss. oxju xcu SuSeKoe.) (rjotSmg. Ibid.
Oraculum a Posideio xviii. stad. Macrob. L. xvii.
Posideium Promontorium et oppidum Branchidavum ap-
pellatum, nunc Didymsei Apollinis, a littore stadiis viginti.
Et inde centum octoginta, Miletus Ioniae caput.—Plin. L. v.
p. 277.
X Pausan. L. vii. p. 525.