Histories

Herodotus

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

Datis gave this order and sailed away, but the Delians never carried that statue away; twenty years later the Thebans brought it to +Delium (deserted settlement), Boeotia, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Delium by command of an oracle.