excepta namque in freto a civibus suis piraticam exercentibus magni ponderis aurea cratera, quam Romani Pythio Apollini decimarum nomine dicaverant, incitato ad eam partiendam populo, ut comperit. curavit Delphos perferendam. Milesia Ceres, Mileto ab Alexandro capta, milites qui templum spoliaturi irruperant, flamma obiecta privavit oculis.
A golden bowl of great weight which the Romans had dedicated to Pythian Apollo as tithes had fallen in the Straits into the hands of his compatriots in their practice of piracy, and the people were urged to divide it up. When he learned the facts, he had it taken to Delphi. When Miletus was taken by Alexander, Milesian Ceres met soldiers who had broken into her temple and were about to plunder it with a flame and blinded them.
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