Histories

“Holy men, why have you fled away, and so misjudged my intent? It is my own desire, and the king's command to me, to do no harm to the land where the two gods[*](Apollo and Artemis.) were born, neither to the land itself nor to its inhabitants. So return now to your homes and dwell on your island.” He made this proclamation to the Delians, and then piled up three hundred talents of frankincense on the altar and burnt it.

After doing this, Datis sailed with his army against +Eretria [23.8083,38.3917] (Perseus) Eretria first, taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from there, Delos [25.2833,37.4] (Perseus)Delos was shaken by an earthquake, the first and last, as the Delians say, before my time. This portent was sent by heaven, as I suppose, to be an omen of the ills that were coming on the world.