When they approached +Naxos [15.283,37.816] (deserted settlement), Messina, Sicily, Italy, Europe Naxos from the Icarian sea and came to land (for it was +Naxos [15.283,37.816] (deserted settlement), Messina, Sicily, Italy, Europe Naxos which the Persians intended to attack first), the Naxians, remembering what had happened before, 1 fled away to the mountains instead of waiting for them. The Persians enslaved all of them that they caught, and burnt their temples and their city. After doing this, they set sail for the other islands.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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