Purification of Delos
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purified the island of Delos · the purification of Delos
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The Histories
Ritual act by which Pisistratus removes graves visible from the temple on Delos, undertaken in accordance with oracular instruction.
) And besides this, he purified the island of Delos as a result of oracles, and this is how he did it:
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Athenian purification of Delos during the war, during which the removal of ancient graves provided physical evidence for Thucydides's claims about early Carian settlement and piracy.
—When Delos was purified by the Athenians in the course of this war, and all the sepulchres of those who had died in the island were taken up, above half were found to be Carians;