Histories

Herodotus

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

Histiaeus, seeing that he was tyrant of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, desired no further sovereignty than that, but asked for Myrcinus[*](A district rich in timber and precious metals; cp. Hdt. 5.23.) in the Edonian land so that he might build a city there. This, then, was Histiaeus' choice, but Coes, inasmuch as he was no tyrant but a plain citizen, asked that he might be made tyrant of Mytilene [26.55,39.1] (Perseus) Mytilene.