[4]
But the Argives, on learning
afterwards the flight of the Thebans, entered the city and collected the booty, and pulled
down the walls. But they sent a portion of the booty to Apollo at Delphi and with it Manto, daughter of Tiresias; for
they had vowed that, if they took Thebes, they
would dedicate to him the fairest of the spoils.1
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1 Compare Diod. 4.66.6 (who gives the name of Tiresias's daughter as Daphne, not Manto); Paus. 7.3.3; Paus. 9.33.2; Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.308.
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