Histories

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.

For in three generations, that is, in the time of Darius son of Hystaspes and Xerxes son of Darius and Artaxerxes son of Xerxes,[*](522-424.) more ills happened to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas than in twenty generations before Darius; some coming from the Persians, some from the wars for preeminence among the chief of the nations themselves.