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When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion , Bias of Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus) Priene , I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks:
When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion , Bias of Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus) Priene , I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks:
[2] for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to
Sardo and then found one city for all
Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in
Ionia (region (general)), Europe
Ionia
he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them.
[3] This was the advice which
Bias of
Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus)
Priene
gave after the destruction of the
Ionians; and that given before the destruction by
Thales of
Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus)
Miletus
, a
Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the
Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in
Teos [26.8,38.1667] (Perseus)
Teos
(for that was the center of
Ionia (region (general)), Europe
Ionia
), and that the other cities be considered no more than demes.
Thus Bias and Thales advised.
Thus Bias and Thales advised.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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