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For seven years after this there was no rain in +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; all the trees in the island except one withered. The Theraeans inquired at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should send to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.
For seven years after this there was no rain in +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; all the trees in the island except one withered. The Theraeans inquired at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should send to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.
[2] So, since there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to
+Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete to find any
Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya. In their travels about the island, these came to the town of
Itanus, where they met a murex fisherman named
Corobius, who told them that he had once been driven off course by winds to
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, to an island there called
Platea.
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[3] They hired this man to come with them to
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; from there, just a few men were sent aboard ship to spy out the land first; guided by
Corobius to the aforesaid island
Platea, these left him there with provision for some months, and themselves sailed back with all speed to
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera to bring news of the island.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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