Herodotus, I, 165. After loosing their city to the Persians, the Phocaeans dropped a heavy mass of iron into the sea and swore never to return to Phocaea till that mass reappeared upon the surface.
Ath. Pol, XXIII, 5. Delian League. καὶ τοὺς ὅρκους ὤμοσεν τοῖς Ἴωσιν, ͅͅ ὥστε τὸν αὐτὸν ἐχθρὸν εἶναι καὶ φίλον, ἐφ᾽ οἷς καὶ τοὺς μύδρους ἐν τῷ πελάγει καθεῖσαν.
Horace, Epodes, XVI, 25. "sed iuremus in haec: 'simul imis saxa renarint vadis levata, ne redire sit nefas"
Plutarch, Aristides, XXV, 1. "(...) μύδρους ἐμβαλὼν ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀραῖς εἰς τὴν θάλατταν"
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