Histories

This Megabazus, left now as commander in the country, subjugated all the people of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont who did not take the side of the Persians.

At the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent against Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, for the reason that I shall give after I finish the story that I am going to tell now.

The descendants of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from +Brauron [24.025,37.9167] (Perseus) Brauron; after being driven out of +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon, and there camped on Teügetum and kindled a fire.

Seeing it, the Lacedaemonians sent a messenger to inquire who they were and where they came from. They answered the messenger that they were Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the Argo and put in at +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos and there begot their race.

Hearing the story of the lineage of the Minyae, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into +Laconia [22.583,37] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Laconia and kindled a fire. They replied that, having been expelled by the Pelasgians, they had come to the land of their fathers, as was most just; and their wish was to live with their fathers' people, sharing in their rights and receiving allotted pieces of land.