Histories

The Paeonians, learning that their towns had been taken, straightway disbanded, each going his own way, and surrendered themselves to the Persians. Thus of the Paeonians the Siriopaeones and Paeoplae and all who lived as far as the Prasiad lake were taken away from their homes and led into Asia (continent)Asia.

But those near the Pangaean[*](East of the Strymon.) mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by Megabazus. He did in fact try to take the lake-dwellers[*](Dwellings of a similar kind have been found in North Italy [12.833,42.833] (nation), Europe Italy, +Ireland (island), British Isles, Europe Ireland, and other parts of Western Europe (continent)Europe.) and did so in the following manner. There is set in the midst of the lake a platform made fast on tall piles, to which one bridge gives a narrow passage from the land.