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| Monuments reported by ancient authors
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Sanctuary of Demeter Fury
After Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of Parian marble. The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high.
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Sanctuary of Boy Asclepius
The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the
temple of Oncaeatian Apollo, and on the right a sanctuary of Boy Asclepius, where
is the tomb of Trygon, who is said to have been the nurse of Asclepius. For the
story is that Asclepius, when little, was exposed in Thelpusa, but was found by
Autolaus, the illegitimate son of Arcas, who reared the baby, and for this reason
Boy Asclepius.
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Temple of Oncaeatian Apollo
The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the temple of Oncaeatian Apollo.
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