Histories

they founded this because they learned from a man of Posidonia that the Cyrnus whose establishment the Pythian priestess ordained was the hero, and not the island.

Thus, then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had taken their walled city by building an earthwork, they all embarked aboard ship and sailed away for Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace. There they founded a city, Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus)Abdera, which before this had been founded by Timesius of Klazomenai [26.7833,38.3167] (Perseus)Clazomenae; yet he got no profit of it, but was driven out by the Thracians. This Timesius is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus) Abdera.