Histories

It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people.

So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death, Theras interceded for their lives, that there might be no killing, promising to lead them out of the country himself.

The Lacedaemonians consented to this, and Theras sailed with three thirty-oared ships to join the descendants of Membliarus, taking with him not all the Minyae but only a few;