Histories

Herodotus

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

Now in the time of Battus the founder of the colony, who ruled for forty years, and of his son Arcesilaus who ruled for sixteen, the inhabitants of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene were no more in number than when they had first gone out to the colony.

But in the time of the third ruler, Battus, who was called the Fortunate, the Pythian priestess warned all Greeks by an oracle to cross the sea and live in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya with the Cyrenaeans; for the Cyrenaeans invited them, promising a distribution of land;

and this was the oracle:

  1. “Whoever goes to beloved Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya after
  2. The fields are divided, I say shall be sorry afterward.”