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and behind the temple two springs burst forth with a wonderful flow of sweet, copious, and cool water. One of these we call Palm, the other Olive to the present day, for it was not between two trees,1 but between two fountains, that the goddess Leto was delivered of her children. Moreover, the Ptoüm2 is near, from which, it is said, a boar suddenly came forth and frightened the goddess, and in like manner the stories of the Python3 and of Tityus4 are associated with the birth of Apollo in this locality.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1917. 5.
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