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63.
Namque artissimo inter Europam Asiamque divortio
Byzantium in extrema Europa posuere Graeci, quibus
Pythium Apollinem consulentibus, ubi conderent urbem,
redditum oraculum est, quaererent sedem caecorum terris
adversam. ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur, quod
priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate, peiora
legissent. quippe Byzantium fertili solo, fecundo mari, quia
vis piscium immensa Pontum erumpens et obliquis subter
undas saxis exterrita omisso alterius litoris flexu hos ad
portus defertur. unde primo quaestuosi et opulenti; post
magnitudine onerum urgente finem aut modum orabant,
adnitente principe, qui Thraecio Bosporanoque bello recens
fessos iuvandosque rettulit. ita tributa in quinquennium
remissa.
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