Doing some weekend reading, and came across the following passage in Herodotus. On how one particular tribe was able temporarily to resist the incursions of Persian invaders:
Above Halicarnassus, and further from the coast, were the Pedasians. With this people, when any evil is about to befall either themselves or their neighbours, the priestess of Athena grows an ample beard. Three times has this marvel happened. They alone, of all the dwellers in Caria, resisted Harpagus for a while, and gave him much trouble, maintaining themselves in a certain mountain called Lida, which they had fortified; but in course of time they also were forced to submit.A cheaper option than national missile defense, perhaps?
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