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But one of the Greeks, correctly surmising the contrivance of the supposed god, not only confuted him by means of the self-same parrots [...] the Greek caught a number of the parrots and re-taught them to say "Apsethus caged us and made us say, 'Apsethus is a god.'" And when the Libyans heard the recantation of the parrots, they all assembled together of one accord and burnt Apsethus alive.