Histories

These same Chaldaeans say (though I do not believe them) that the god himself is accustomed to visit the shrine and rest on the couch, as in Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, as the Egyptians say

(for there too a woman sleeps in the temple of Theban Zeus,[*](Amon-Api (Greek *)ame/nwfis); cp. Hdt. 2.42.) and neither the Egyptian nor the Babylonian woman, it is said, has intercourse with men), and as does the prophetess of the god[*](Apollo.) at Patara [29.35,36.2167] (Perseus) Patara in Lycia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Lycia, whenever she is appointed; for there is not always a place of divination there; but when she is appointed she is shut up in the temple during the night.