The tutelary heroes of the land where once they lived, with sacred ritesThereupon Solon sailed by night to the island and made sacrifices to the heroes Periphemus and Cychreus.
Propitiate, whom the Asopian plain now hides in its bosom;
There they lie buried with their faces toward the setting sun.
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Others, however, say that the island was not taken in his way, but that Solon first received this oracle from the god at Delphi:—
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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