Histories

The Lacedaemonians consented to this, and Theras sailed with three thirty-oared ships to join the descendants of Membliarus, taking with him not all the Minyae but only a few;

for the greater part of them made their way to the lands of the Paroreatae and Caucones, and after having driven these out of their own country, they divided themselves into six companies and established the cities of Lepreum, Macistus, Phrixae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium in the land they had won;[*](These six towns were in the western +Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, in Triphylia, a district between +Elis [21.4,37.8833] (Perseus) Elis and +Nomos Messinias [21.833,37.25] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Messenia.) most of these were in my time taken and sacked by the Eleans. As for the island +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste, it was called +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera after its colonist.