Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

Now when they were putting together the treasure they inquired of the oracle if their present prosperity was likely to last long; whereupon the priestess gave them this answer:

  1. “When the prytaneum on Siphnus becomes white
  2. And white-browed the market, then indeed a shrewd man is wanted
  3. Beware a wooden force and a red herald.”
At this time the market-place and town-hall of Siphnus were adorned with Parian marble.