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By degrees Bithynia, Galatia, Thrace, came flocking in, every one who had been present doubtless reporting that he had

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beheld the birth of the God, and had touched him after his. marvellous development in size and in expression. Next came pictures and models, bronze or silver images, and the God acquired a name. By divine command, metrically expressed, he was to be known as Glycon. For Alexander had delivered the line:
Glycon my name, mans light, sons son to Zeus.

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