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For all the intervening plain was made impassable by the river Melas, which no sooner begins to flow than it spreads itself out into navigable marshes and lakes. A little below the marshes stands the temple of Apollo Tegyraeus, with an oracle which had not been long abandoned, but was flourishing down to the Persian wars, when Echecrates was prophet-priest. Here, according to the story, the god was born; and the neighbouring mountain is called Delos, and at its base the river Melas ceases to be spread out,
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and behind the temple two springs burst forth with a wonderful flow of sweet, copious, and cool water. One of these we call Palm, the other Olive to the present day, for it was not between two trees,As in the Delian story of the birth of Apollo and Artemis. but between two fountains, that the goddess Leto was delivered of her children. Moreover, the PtoümA mountain at the south-eastern side of Lake Copaïs, on which was a celebrated sanctuary of Apollo. is near, from which, it is said, a boar suddenly came forth and frightened the goddess, and in like manner the stories of the PythonA dragon and a giant, who were slain by Apollo and Artemis. and of TityusA dragon and a giant, who were slain by Apollo and Artemis. are associated with the birth of Apollo in this locality.
