As inacessible as Abaton. Artemisia, to commemorate her
conquest of Rhodes, erected two statues in the island, one representing
herself, and the other emblematical of Rhodes. When the Rhodians
recovered their liberty they looked upon this monument as a kind of
palladium, and to prevent its destruction surrounded it with a
fortified enclosure which they called Abaton, or the inaccessible
place. (Lucan speaks of an island difficult of access in the fens of
Memphis, called Abaton.)
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