130 REV. HENRY LANSDELL, D.D., ETC., ON 



having subdued the Myceiieaus, they consecrated a tenth 

 out of then- goods to the god. (B.C. 473.)* 



Diodorns mentions, too, that the Liparians, or Greeks who 

 colonised the Lipari Islands, having overcome the Etruscans 

 in many sea battles, sent the tithe of the spoil to Delphi.f 

 We may further observe, before passing from this early period 

 to Spartan times, that Ares himself is recorded to have dedi- 

 cated his tithe to one of the genii who first taught him to be 

 ii, soldier.^ which is another indication of the great antiquity 

 of tithe-giving among the Greeks. 



Again, Pisistratus writing to Solon, tlie famous Athenian 

 lawgiver (born about (Jo8 B.C.), touching the tribute of a 

 tenth, Avhich certain former princes had seized for their own 

 use, says that he took tithes of every one of tiie people, not 

 so much for his own use as for public sacrifice or the use of 

 the gods in general. § 



If, next, we ask concerning spoils taken in battle, we have 

 Agesilaus (King of Sparta from ol)8 to 361 B.C.), who during 

 his wars in Asia Minor, within the space of two years, 

 sent more than 100 talents of tithe to Delphi, as Xenophon 

 testifies.il 



Lysander, another Spartan general (killed 395 B.C.), is 

 mentioned by Maximus Tyrius as offering the tithe of his 

 gains in war to the gods.lF 



So, too, Ave have a similar instance in Cimon, the Athenian 

 general, who, after defeating the Persians at Eurymedon in 

 4(3G B.C., took out the tenth of the spoils, and dedicated them 

 generally to the Deity, but did not name Apollo or any 

 other. 



About this same period probably we may place the vow of 

 the Crotonians of a tenth of the spoil to Apollo at Delphi, 

 before their Avar Avith the Locrians, Avhilsfc the Locrians, not 

 to be outdone, voAA^ed a ninth.** 



Pausanias, the Spartan general (avIio died 46(3 B.C.), gave, 

 after his victory OA^er Mardonius, out of the tithe of the spod. 

 a tripod of gold to Apollo at Delphi, and two brazen 

 statues, one to Zeus Olympius, the other to the Isthmian 

 Poseidon.ft 



* Diodorns Siculus, v. 11, c. 65. t Diodoius, a-. 9. 



I Lucian de saltatioiie. Comber, p. 33 ; Selden, p. 31. 



§ Seidell's IJistor>/ of Tithes, p. 33. || Herodotus, lib. 9, c. 81. 



ir Agesilaus, c. 1,' § 34. ** Max. Tyr., Dissert., 14. 



tt Trogus Ponipeius, Histor., Selden, p. 30. 



