Now Minos, it is said, went to Sicania, which is now called Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily, in search for Daedalus, and perished there by a violent death. Presently all the Cretans except the men of Polichne and Praesus were bidden by a god to go with a great host to Sicania. Here they besieged the town of Camicus, where in my day the men of +Agrigento [13.566,37.316] (inhabited place), Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, Europe Acragas dwelt, for five years.

Presently, since they could neither take it nor remain there because of the famine which afflicted them, they departed. However, when they were at sea off Iapygia, a great storm caught and drove them ashore. Because their ships had been wrecked and there was no way left of returning to +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete, they founded there the town of +Hyria [23.8,38.3167] (Perseus) Hyria, and made this their dwelling place, accordingly changing from Cretans to Messapians of Iapygia, and from islanders to dwellers on the mainland.

From +Hyria [23.8,38.3167] (Perseus) Hyria they made settlements in those other towns which a very long time afterwards the Tarentines attempted to destroy, thereby suffering great disaster. The result was that no one has ever heard of so great a slaughter of Greeks as that of the Tarentines and Rhegians; three thousand townsmen of the latter, men who had been coerced by Micythus son of Choerus to come and help the Tarentines, were killed, and no count was kept of the Tarentine slain.

Micythus was a servant of Anaxilaus and had been left in charge of +Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium; it was he who was banished from +Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium and settled in Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea of +Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia, and who set up those many statues at Olympia [21.6333,37.65] (Perseus)Olympia.