Friday, April 25, 2014
Punishment for Arboricide
Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.26 (on Heracleides the Lycian, tr. Wilmer Cave Wright):
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It is said that for cutting down sacred cedars he was punished by the confiscation of a great part of his estate.
ἱερὰς δὲ λέγεται κέδρους ἐκτεμὼν δημευθῆναι τὸ πολὺ τῆς οὐσίας.
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