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Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, at the time when the people of Delos were asserting their rightful claims to the island against the Athenians, and said that according to the law 1 which prevailed among them there were no births and no burials in the island, said, ‘How can this be your native land in which no one of you has ever been born nor shall ever be hereafter ?’ 2

1 The law seems to have been put into effect (426-425 B.C.) some years after the death of this Pausanias (468 B.C.).

2 Cf. Thucydides, iii. 104.

Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.

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