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grbs-15871	Paradiso, Annalisa	Crossing the Halys and its Dangers. Nicolaus of Damascus and the Croesus Oracle	2017	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7268	298	65	The very probable identifica- tion of Xanthus as the source of Ephorus for the hexameter oracle also seems to confirm, even if indirectly, the derivation of Thomas’ oracle from Nicolaus himself: Xanthus of Lydia was in fact the most important source of Nicolaus of Damascus for Lydian history and even the only one.31 The addition of a missing, Nicolaean, oracle to the abridged Nicolaus It must be pointed out that the Turonensis scholion quotes an oracle which is not simply extrapolated from a foreign, and totally different, narrative but is presupposed precisely by Nicolaus F 68.13, where Croesus’ wish to question Apollo about his deceptive oracle is related, along with the bitter pro- posal of sending his fetters to the god as a sarcastic offering. In a transcriptional mistake, the god who rescued Croesus by pouring water became Zeus in place of Apollo, and that lapsus would be better explained if the content of Nicolaus F 68 (where Zeus is also mentioned) had been taken into account by the Nicolaean compilation.34 Hence, I think one cannot ex- clude the alternative hypothesis of a common source for the two marginal notes, that of the Turonensis and that of Thomas, and that source could be identified with a compilation of Nicolaus of Damascus.	cache/grbs-15871.pdf	txt/grbs-15871.txt