Histories

Marvelling at what he heard from his watchers and what he saw for himself, Darius bade the woman be brought before him. When she had been brought, her brothers, who watched all this from a place nearby, came too. Darius asked of what nation she was, and the young man told him that they were Paeonians and that she was their sister.

“But who,” he answered, “are the Paeonians, and where do they dwell, and with what intent have you come to Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis?” They told him, that they had come to be his men, that the towns of Paeonia lay on the Strymon, a river not far from the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, and that they were colonists from the Teucrians of +Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy.

So they told him all this, and the king asked them if all the women of their country were so industrious. To this too they very readily answered (for it was for this very purpose that they had come), that it was indeed so.