Histories

The conduct of the Argives was accordingly not utterly shameful. As for myself, although it is my business to set down that which is told me, to believe it is none at all of my business. This I ask the reader to hold true for the whole of my history, for there is another tale current, according to which it would seem that it was the Argives who invited the Persian into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, because the war with the Lacedaemonians was going badly, and they would prefer anything to their present distresses.

Such is the end of the story of the Argives. As for Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily, envoys were sent there by the allies to hold converse with Gelon, Syagrus from Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon among them. The ancestor of this Gelon, who settled at +Gela [14.25,37.0667] (Perseus) Gela, was from the island of +Nisos Tilos [27.416,36.416] (island), Sporades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Telos which lies off Triopium. When the founding of +Gela [14.25,37.0667] (Perseus) Gela by Antiphemus and the Lindians of +Rhodes [28,36.166] (island), Sporades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Rhodes was happening, he would not be left behind.

His descendants in time became and continue to be priests of the goddesses of the underworld;[*](Demeter and Persephone.) this office had been won, as I will show, by Telines, one of their forefathers. There were certain Geloans who had been worsted in party strife and had been banished to the town of Mactorium, inland of +Gela [14.25,37.0667] (Perseus) Gela.