Histories

The Lacedaemonians were happy to receive the Minyae [*](As descendants of the Argonauts, who were Minyae of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly, living near the Pagasaean gulf.) on the terms which their guests desired; the chief cause of their consenting was that the Tyndaridae [*](Castor and Polydeuces.) had been in the ship's company of the Argo; so they received the Minyae and gave them land and distributed them among their own tribes. The Minyae immediately married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought from +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos.

But in no time these Minyae became imperious, demanding an equal right to the kingship, and doing other impious things;

hence the Lacedaemonians resolved to kill them, and they seized them and cast them into prison. (When the Lacedaemonians execute, they do it by night, never by day.)

Now when they were about to kill the prisoners, the wives of the Minyae, who were natives of the country, daughters of leading Spartans, asked permission to enter the prison and each converse with her husband; the Lacedamonians granted this, not expecting that there would be any treachery from them.

But when the wives came into the prison, they gave their husbands all their own garments, and themselves put on the men's clothing; so the Minyae passed out in the guise of women dressed in women's clothing; and thus escaping, once more camped on Teügetum.