Histories

Herodotus

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

Many of their crews he killed; the rest of the people of the country, since they were crippled by the sea-fight, were mastered by Histiaeus with his Lesbians, setting out from Polichne in Chios [26,38.366] (island), Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeChios.

It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten cities or nations; for before all this plain signs had been sent to the Chians.