Histories

Herodotus

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

Presently, entrusting Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis to a Persian called Tabalus, and instructing Pactyes, a Lydian, to take charge of the gold of Croesus and the Lydians, he himself marched away to Hamadan [48.583,34.766] (inhabited place), Hamadan, Iran, Asia Ecbatana, taking Croesus with him, and at first taking no notice of the Ionians.