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He said this because he desired adventures and wanted to be governor of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Finally he worked on Xerxes and persuaded him to do this, and other things happened that helped him to persuade Xerxes.

Messengers came from +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly from the Aleuadae (who were princes of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly) and invited the king into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas with all earnestness; the Pisistratidae who had come up to Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa used the same pleas as the Aleuadae, offering Xerxes even more than they did.

They had come up to Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner[*](The word sometimes means “a diviner”; here, probably, rather a “selecter and publisher” of existing oracles, by recitation or otherwise.) who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus. They had reconciled their previous hostility with him; Onomacritus had been banished from Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens by Pisistratus' son Hipparchus, when he was caught by Lasus [*](A poet and musician, Pindar's teacher.) of +Hermione [23.2583,37.3833] (Perseus) Hermione in the act of interpolating into the writings of Musaeus an oracle showing that the islands off +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos would disappear into the sea.