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The temple at Didyma with its shrine and place of divination was plundered and burnt. (Hdt. 6.19.3)
Alexander destroyed also the city of the Branchidae, whom Xerxes had settled there -people who voluntarily accompanied him from their homeland- because of the fact that they had betrayed to him the riches and treasures of the god at Didymi. Alexander destroyed the city, they add, because he abominated the sacrilege and the betrayal .. The Branchidae gave over the treasures of the god to the Persian king, and accompanied him in his flight in order to escape punishment for the robbing and the betrayal of the temple. (Strab.11.11.4)
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