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I heard also at Pharae that besides the twins a daughter Anticleia was born to Diocles, and that her children were Nicomachus and Gorgasus, by Machaon the son of Asclepius. They remained at Pharae and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Diocles. The power of healing diseases and curing the maimed has remained with them to this day, and in return for this, sacrifices and votive offerings are brought to their sanctuary. The people of Pharae possess also a temple of Fortune (Tyche) and an ancient image.
4.30.4Homer is the first whom I know to have mentioned Fortune in his poems. He did so in the Hymn to Demeter
, where he enumerates the daughters of Ocean, telling how they played with Kore the daughter of Demeter, and making Fortune one of them. The lines are:
We all in a lovely meadow, Leucippe, Phaeno, Electre and Ianthe, Melobosis and Tyche and Ocyrhoe with face like a flower.
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He said nothing further about this goddess being the mightiest of gods in human affairs and displaying greatest strength, as in the Iliad
he represented Athena and Enyo as supreme in war, and Artemis feared in childbirth, and Aphrodite heeding the affairs of marriage. note But he makes no other mention of Fortune.
Bupalos note a skilful temple-architect and carver of images, who made the statue of Fortune at
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4.31.1
Not far from Pharae is a grove of Apollo Carneius and a spring of water in it. Pharae is about six stades from the sea. Eighty stades on the road which leads thence into the interior of For this reason Augustus punished the Messenians and the rest of his adversaries, some more, some less. The people of
In the interior is a village Calamae and a place Limnae, where is a sanctuary of On the road from A road turns to the left from the springs, and after some forty stades is the city of the Messenians under Round The Messenians possess a statue of Zeus the Saviour in the market-place and a fountain
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