Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

But my own belief about it is this. If the Phoenicians did in fact carry away the sacred women and sell one in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya and one in Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, then, in my opinion, the place where this woman was sold in what is now Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, but was formerly called Pelasgia, was +Nomo Thesprotias [20.333,39.5] (department), Epirus, Greece, Europe Thesprotia;

and then, being a slave there, she established a shrine of Zeus under an oak that was growing there; for it was reasonable that, as she had been a handmaid of the temple of Zeus at Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes , she would remember that temple in the land to which she had come.

After this, as soon as she understood the Greek language, she taught divination; and she said that her sister had been sold in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya by the same Phoenicians who sold her.