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When he heard these verses, Croesus was pleased with them above all, for he thought that a mule would never be king of the Medes instead of a man, and therefore that he and his posterity would never lose his empire. Then he sought very carefully to discover who the mightiest of the Greeks were, whom he should make his friends.
When he heard these verses, Croesus was pleased with them above all, for he thought that a mule would never be king of the Medes instead of a man, and therefore that he and his posterity would never lose his empire. Then he sought very carefully to discover who the mightiest of the Greeks were, whom he should make his friends.
[2] He found by inquiry that the chief peoples were the
Lacedaemonians among those of
Doric, and the
Athenians among those of
Ionic stock. These races,
Ionian and
Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a
Pelasgian and the second a
Hellenic people. The
Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the
Hellenic has wandered often and far.
[3] For in the days of king
Deucalion
1
it inhabited the land of
Phthia [22.75,36.2667] (Perseus)
Phthia
, then the country called
Histiaean, under
Ossa and
Olympus (mountain), Nomos Larisis, Thessaly, Greece, Europe
Olympus
, in the time of
Dorus son of
Hellen; driven from this
Histiaean country by the
Cadmeans, it settled about
Pindus in the territory called
Macedonian; from there again it migrated to
Dryopia, and at last came from
Dryopia into the
Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe
Peloponnese
, where it took the name of
Dorian.
2
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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