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harassed that territory. Strabo,
however, says, that when the
Teucri were migrating from
Crete, they were told by an oracle
to settle in that place,
where they should not be attacked
by the original inhabitants
of the land, and that, having
halted for the night, a number
of field-mice came and
gnawed away the leathern
straps of their baggage, and
thongs of their armour. In fulfilment
of the oracle, they
settled on the spot, and raised
a temple to Sminthean Apollo.
Grote, "History of Greece," i.
p. 68, remarks that the "worship
of Sminthean Apollo, in
various parts of the Troad and
its neighboring territory, dates
before the earliest period of
Aeolian colonization."