Histories

Herodotus

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

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.