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It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people.
It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people.
[2] So when the
Minyae escaped from prison and camped on
Teügetum, and the
Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death,
Theras interceded for their lives, that there might be no killing, promising to lead them out of the country himself.
[3] The
Lacedaemonians consented to this, and
Theras sailed with three thirty-oared ships to join the descendants of
Membliarus, taking with him not all the
Minyae but only a few;
[4] for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of the
Paroreatae and
Caucones, and after having driven these out of their own country, they divided themselves into six companies and established the cities of
Lepreum,
Macistus,
Phrixae,
Pyrgus,
Epium, and
Nudium in the land they had won;
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most of these were in my time taken and sacked by the
Eleans. As for the island
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste, it was called
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera after its colonist.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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