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In their journey a thing happened to them such as I will show. As they voyaged to Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian 1 Locrians at a time when the people of Zancle [15.5667,38.1833] (Perseus) Zancle and their king (whose name was Scythes) were besieging a Sicilian town desiring to take it.
In their journey a thing happened to them such as I will show. As they voyaged to Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily, the Samians came to the country of the Epizephyrian 1 Locrians at a time when the people of Zancle [15.5667,38.1833] (Perseus) Zancle and their king (whose name was Scythes) were besieging a Sicilian town desiring to take it.
[2] Learning this,
Anaxilaus the tyrant of
Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium, being then in a feud with the
Zanclaeans, joined forces with the
Samians and persuaded them to leave off their voyage to the
Fair Coast and seize
Zancle [15.5667,38.1833] (Perseus) Zancle while it was deserted by its men.
[3] The
Samians consented and seized
Zancle [15.5667,38.1833] (Perseus) Zancle; when they learned that their city was taken, the
Zanclaeans came to deliver it, calling to their aid
Hippocrates the tyrant of
Gela [14.25,37.0667] (Perseus)Gela, who was their ally.
[4] But
Hippocrates, when he came bringing his army to aid them, put Scythes the monarch of
Zancle [15.5667,38.1833] (Perseus) Zancle and his brother
Pythogenes in chains for losing the city, and sent them away to the city of
Inyx. He betrayed the rest of the
Zanclaeans to the
Samians, with whom he had made an agreement and exchanged oaths.
[5] The price which the
Samians agreed to give him was that
Hippocrates should take for his share half of the movable goods and slaves in the city, and all that was in the country.
[6] Most of the
Zanclaeans were kept in chains as slaves by
Hippocrates himself; he gave three hundred chief men to the
Samians to be put to death, but the
Samians did not do so.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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