Histories

From +Hyria [23.8,38.3167] (Perseus) Hyria they made settlements in those other towns which a very long time afterwards the Tarentines attempted to destroy, thereby suffering great disaster. The result was that no one has ever heard of so great a slaughter of Greeks as that of the Tarentines and Rhegians; three thousand townsmen of the latter, men who had been coerced by Micythus son of Choerus to come and help the Tarentines, were killed, and no count was kept of the Tarentine slain.

Micythus was a servant of Anaxilaus and had been left in charge of +Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium; it was he who was banished from +Reggio di Calabria [15.65,38.1] (inhabited place), Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, Europe Rhegium and settled in Tegea [22.4,37.5] (Perseus) Tegea of +Arcadia [22.25,37.583] (department), Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Arcadia, and who set up those many statues at Olympia [21.6333,37.65] (Perseus)Olympia.

In relating the matter of the Rhegians and Tarentines, however, I digress from the main thread of my history. The Praesians say that when +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete was left desolate, it was populated especially by Greeks, among other peoples. Then, in the third generation after Minos, the events surrounding the Trojan War, in which the Cretans bore themselves as bravely as any in the cause of Menelaus, took place.

After this, when they returned from +Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy, they and their flocks and herds were afflicted by famine and pestilence, until +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete was once more left desolate. Then came a third influx of Cretans, and it is they who, with those that were left, now dwell there. It was this that the priestess bade them remember, and so prevented them from aiding the Greeks as they were previously inclined.