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Here they lived for two years; but as everything went wrong, the rest sailed to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi leaving one behind, and on their arrival questioned the oracle, and said that they were living in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, but that they were no better off for that.
Here they lived for two years; but as everything went wrong, the rest sailed to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi leaving one behind, and on their arrival questioned the oracle, and said that they were living in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, but that they were no better off for that.
[2] Then the priestess gave them this reply:
Hearing this, Battus and his men sailed back again; for the god would not let them do anything short of colonizing Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya itself;
“If you know
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya nurse of sheep better than I,
Though I have been there and you have not, then I am very much astonished at your knowledge.”
Hearing this, Battus and his men sailed back again; for the god would not let them do anything short of colonizing Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya itself;
[3] and having come to the island and taken aboard the one whom they had left there, they made a settlement at a place in
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya itself, opposite the island which was called
Aziris. This is a place enclosed on both sides by the fairest of groves, with a river flowing along one side of it.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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