Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes; his intention was to settle among the people of +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste and not drive them out but claim them as in fact his own people.

So when the Minyae escaped from prison and camped on Teügetum, and the Lacedaemonians were planning to put them to death, Theras interceded for their lives, that there might be no killing, promising to lead them out of the country himself.