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Day 336 Book 6, Chapter 18

These were the barbarian peoples of Sicily, distributed as I have described. As for the Greeks, the first to arrive were Chalcidians from Euboea, led by their founder Thucles. They established Naxos and erected the altar of Apollo Archegetes, which s...

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