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Thornax

A mountain in Laconia, Apollo's temple there, place in Laconia.

Perseus Encyclopedia
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For the Lacedaemonians had sent to Sardis to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on Thornax in Laconia; and Croesus, when they offered to buy it, made them a free gift of it.

Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
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