In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , and this, according to them, was the first wrong that was done. Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre [35.183,33.266] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Tyre in Phoenicia (region (general)), Asia Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have been Cretans. So far, then, the account between them was balanced. But after this (they say), it was the Greeks who were guilty of the second wrong.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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