Histories

Now this was at that time an untapped[*](That is, as yet unvisited by Greeks. It was at or near the mouth of the Guadalquivir; cp. Hdt. 1.163.) market; hence, the Samians, of all the Greeks whom we know with certainty, brought back from it the greatest profit on their wares except Sostratus of +Aegina [23.433,37.75] (inhabited place), Aegina, Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Aegina, son of Laodamas; no one could compete with him.

The Samians took six talents, a tenth of their profit, and made a bronze vessel with it, like an Argolic cauldron, with griffins' heads projecting from the rim all around; they set this up in their temple of Hera, supporting it with three colossal kneeling figures of bronze, each twelve feet high.

What the Samians had done was the beginning of a close friendship between them and the men of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene and +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera.

As for the Theraeans, when they came to +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera after leaving Corobius on the island, they brought word that they had established a settlement on an island off Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya. The Theraeans determined to send out men from their seven regions, taking by lot one of every pair of brothers, and making Battus leader and king of all. Then they manned two fifty-oared ships and sent them to Platea.