Histories

When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion, Bias of Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus)Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks:

for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and then found one city for all Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them.

This was the advice which Bias of Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus) Priene gave after the destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos [26.8,38.1667] (Perseus)Teos (for that was the center of Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia), and that the other cities be considered no more than demes.Thus Bias and Thales advised.