This Otanes, then, who sat upon that seat, was now made successor to Megabazus in his governorship. He captured +Byzantium [28.95,41.0333] (Perseus) Byzantium, Calchedon, Antandrus in the +Troas (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Troad, and Lamponium, and with ships he had taken from the Lesbians, he took +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos and Imbros, both of which were still inhabited by Pelasgians.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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