Histories

Herodotus

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

His descendants in time became and continue to be priests of the goddesses of the underworld;[*](Demeter and Persephone.) this office had been won, as I will show, by Telines, one of their forefathers. There were certain Geloans who had been worsted in party strife and had been banished to the town of Mactorium, inland of +Gela [14.25,37.0667] (Perseus) Gela.