Histories

The conduct of the Argives was accordingly not utterly shameful. As for myself, although it is my business to set down that which is told me, to believe it is none at all of my business. This I ask the reader to hold true for the whole of my history, for there is another tale current, according to which it would seem that it was the Argives who invited the Persian into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they would prefer anything to their present distresses.