Plutarch, Theseus, chapter 24, section 5

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Theseus, offspring of Aegeus, son of the daughter of Pittheus,
Many indeed the cities to which my father has given
Bounds and future fates within your citadel's confines.
Therefore be not dismayed, but with firm and confident spirit
Counsel only; the bladder will traverse the sea and its surges.

And this oracle they say the Sibyl afterwards repeated to the city, when she cried:—

‘Bladder may be submerged; but its sinking will not be permitted.’

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.

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