"Zeus Archon, Dodonean, Pelasgian, who dwells afar, ruling on rough wintered Dodona, surrounded by the Selloi, the interpreters of your divine will, whose feet are unwashed and sleep on the ground". Homer, Iliad 16:127 (Achilles prayer) XI. "War was at the same time proclaimed against the Tarentines (who are still a people at the extremity of Italy), because ...