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So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a Phocaean, whose name was Pythennos, to speak for all. He then put on a purple cloak, so that as many Spartans as possible might assemble to hear him, and stood up and made a long speech asking aid for his people.
So when the envoys of the Ionians and Aeolians came to Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta (for they set about this in haste) they chose a Phocaean, whose name was Pythennos, to speak for all. He then put on a purple cloak, so that as many Spartans as possible might assemble to hear him, and stood up and made a long speech asking aid for his people.
[2] But the
Lacedaemonians would not listen to him and refused to help the
Ionians. So the
Ionians departed; but the
Lacedaemonians, though they had rejected their envoys, did nevertheless send men in a ship of fifty oars to see (as I suppose) the situation with
Cyrus and
Ionia (region (general)), Europe
Ionia
.
[3] These, after coming to
Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia
Phocaea
, sent
Lacrines, who was the most esteemed among them, to
Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus)
Sardis
, to repeat there to
Cyrus a proclamation of the
Lacedaemonians, that he was to harm no city on
Greek territory, or else the
Lacedaemonians would punish him.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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