Histories

Herodotus

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

Making these your starting point, you will easily attack +Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea, which is a great and a wealthy island, no smaller than Cyprus [33,35] (island), AsiaCyprus and very easy to take. A hundred ships suffice for the conquest of all these.”