Histories

Evelthon was willing to give her everything else, only not an army, and when she accepted what he gave her, she said that it was fine, but it would be better to give her an army as she asked.

This she said whatever the gift, until at last Evelthon sent her a golden spindle and distaff, and wool, and when Pheretime uttered the same words as before, he answered that these, and not armies, were gifts for women.

Meanwhile Arcesilaus was in +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos, collecting all the men that he could and promising them a new division of land; and while a great army was thus gathering, he made a journey to Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi, to ask the oracle about his return.