Histories

In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt [30,27] (nation), AfricaEgypt, and this, according to them, was the first wrong that was done. Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre [35.183,33.266] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Tyre in Phoenicia (region (general)), Asia Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have been Cretans. So far, then, the account between them was balanced. But after this (they say), it was the Greeks who were guilty of the second wrong.

They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Poti [41.683,42.183] (inhabited place), regions under republican jurisdiction, Georgia, Asia Phasis:[*](This is the legendary cruise of the Argonauts.) and when they had done the business for which they came, they carried off the king's daughter Medea.

When the Colchian king sent a herald to demand reparation for the robbery and restitution of his daughter, the Greeks replied that, as they had been refused reparation for the abduction of the Argive Io, they would not make any to the Colchians.