Histories

Herodotus

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

So these men met with such a fate. As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he saw that the Ionian cause was lost, he sailed away with the three enemy ships that he had captured; but not to Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Phocaea, now that he knew well that it would be enslaved with the rest of Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia; he right away sailed straight to Phoenicia (region (general)), Asia Phoenicia instead, sunk some merchant ships, took a lot of money, and sailed to Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily; from this base he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks.