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28 of Apollo to know what Wickednes it was had brought thee Calamities upon Them. The Oracle gave them this Anwer, That they were to Expiate for the Death of Æop. In the Concience of their Barbarity, they Erected a Pyramid to his Honor, and it is upon Tradition, that a Great Many of the Mot Eminent Men among the Greeks of that Seaon, went afterwards to Delphos upon the News of the Tragical End of Æop, to Learn the Truth of the Hitory, and found upon Enquiry, That the Principal of the Conpirators had layd Violent hands upon Themelves.