Cum autem cives Ephesiorum cogitarent fanum Dianae ex marmore facere decernerentque, a Paro, Proconnenso, Heraclea, Thaso uti marmor peteretur, propulsis ovibus Pixodarus in eodem loco pecus pascebat, ibique duo arietes inter se concurrentes alius alium praeterierunt et impetu facto unus cornibus percussit saxum, ex quo crusta candidissimo colore fuerat deiecta.
Now when the citizens of Ephesus planned to build a temple of marble and decided to obtain marble from Paros, Proconnesus, Heraclea, and Thasos, Pixodarus was driving his sheep and was pasturing them in the same place. And there two rams, butting together, overran one another, and, in the rush, one of them struck a rock with his horns and a chip of the whitest colour was thrown down.
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