Aristodicus ( grc, Ἀριστόδικος) of
Cyme in
Asia Minor, and son of
Heracleides. When his fellow citizens were advised, by an
oracle
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Description
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, to deliver up
Pactyes to the
Persians, Aristodicus dissuaded them from it, saying that the oracle might be a fabrication, as Pactyes had come to them as a
suppliant
Supplication (also known as petitioning) is a form of prayer, wherein one party humbly or earnestly asks another party to provide something, either for the party who is doing the supplicating (e.g., "Please spare my life.") or on behalf of someon ...
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Aristodicus was then sent himself to consult the oracle; but the answer it gave was the same as before; and when Aristodicus, in order to avert surrendering a suppliant -- which was in context an impious act -- endeavored to demonstrate to the god
Apollo (the source of the oracle), that he had given an unjust command, the oracle still persisted in it, and added that it was intended to bring ruin upon Cyme, as punishment for even considering giving up a supplicant.
[ Herodotus, '']Histories
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* the plural of history
* ''Histories'' (Herodotus), by Herodotus
* ''The Histories'', by Timaeus
* ''The Histories'' (Polybius), by Polybius
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'' 1.158, 159
References
{{DGRBM, author=LS, title= Aristodicus (1) , volume=1, page=306, url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/321
Aeolians
6th-century BC people