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At the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent against Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, for the reason that I shall give after I finish the story that I am going to tell now.
At the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent against Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, for the reason that I shall give after I finish the story that I am going to tell now.
[2] The descendants of the crew of the
Argo were driven out by the
Pelasgians who carried off the
Athenian women from
+Brauron [24.025,37.9167] (Perseus) Brauron; after being driven out of
+Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos by them, they sailed away to
Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon, and there camped on
Teügetum and kindled a fire.
[3] Seeing it, the
Lacedaemonians sent a messenger to inquire who they were and where they came from. They answered the messenger that they were
Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the
Argo and put in at
+Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos and there begot their race.
[4] Hearing the story of the lineage of the
Minyae, the
Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into
+Laconia [22.583,37] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Laconia and kindled a fire. They replied that, having been expelled by the
Pelasgians, they had come to the land of their fathers, as was most just; and their wish was to live with their fathers' people, sharing in their rights and receiving allotted pieces of land.
[5] The
Lacedaemonians were happy to receive the
Minyae
1
on the terms which their guests desired; the chief cause of their consenting was that the
Tyndaridae
2
had been in the ship's company of the
Argo; so they received the
Minyae and gave them land and distributed them among their own tribes. The
Minyae immediately married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought from
+Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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