Histories

For seven years after this there was no rain in +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; all the trees in the island except one withered. The Theraeans inquired at Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi again, and the priestess mentioned the colony they should send to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.

So, since there was no remedy for their ills, they sent messengers to +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete to find any Cretan or traveller there who had travelled to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya. In their travels about the island, these came to the town of Itanus, where they met a murex fisherman named Corobius, who told them that he had once been driven off course by winds to Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, to an island there called Platea.[*](The island now called Bomba, east of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene.)

They hired this man to come with them to +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera; from there, just a few men were sent aboard ship to spy out the land first; guided by Corobius to the aforesaid island Platea, these left him there with provision for some months, and themselves sailed back with all speed to +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera to bring news of the island.