Histories

Herodotus

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

They sailed to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and made +Byzantium [28.95,41.0333] (Perseus) Byzantium and all the other cities of that region subject to themselves. Then sailing out from the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont they gained to their cause the greater part of +Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Caria, for even +Caunus [28.6333,36.8333] (Perseus) Caunus, which till then had not wanted to be their ally, now joined itself to them after the burning of Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis.

The Cyprians did likewise of their own free will, all save the people of +Amathus [33.05,34.6667] (Perseus) Amathus, for these too revolted from the Medes in such manner as I will show. There was a certain Onesilus, a younger brother of Gorgus king of the Salaminians,[*](Of Salamis [33.9,35.166] (deserted settlement), Famagusta, Cyprus, AsiaSalamis in Cyprus [33,35] (island), AsiaCyprus.) son of Chersis, whose father was Siromus, and grandson of Euelthon.