Isocrates, Helen, section 63

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[63] And I can produce the city of the Spartans, which preserves with especial care its ancient traditions, as witness for the fact; for even to the present day at Therapne¹ in Laconia the people offer holy and traditional sacrifices to them both, not as to heroes, but as to gods.

1 Just outside Sparta were the tombs of Menelaus and Helen （see Pausanias iii. 19.9） and their sanctuary （Herodotus vi. 61）.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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