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The Megalithic Temple at Buto: Herodotus II. 155
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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‘In this city of Buto there is a sanctuary of Apollo and Artemis. The particular temple of Leto, which was described as the place of the oracle, is itself, I found, large and has a stair ten fathoms in height. But in what was visible to me, the most astonishing thing was this: there is in the enclosure there a temple of Leto, wrought from a single stone in respect of height as well as of length, and each wall equal to these [stones]. Each of these [stones] is of forty cubits. And for the covering in of the roof there is another stone imposed, having a supertecture (?) of four cubits’. 
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1 It is surely obvious that 
and 
refer to the same things, that both therefore signify the stones, and that 
cannot mean anything but ‘equal to these stones.’ The attempts which have been made to avoid this, e.g. by the rendering ‘each wall is equal in these respects’, viz. height and length, are desperate in grammar. Neither do they touch the main difficulty, that the meaning thus violently extracted is itself absurd.
2 
Pollux, cited by Blakesley, who however himself recommends the other interpretation.