Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

The Greeks took them as far as Delos [25.2833,37.4] (Perseus)Delos, and that not readily, for they, having no knowledge of those parts and thinking that armed men were everywhere, feared all that lay beyond. They supposed too that +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos was no nearer to them than the Pillars of Heracles. So it happened that the barbarians were too disheartened to dare to sail farther west than +Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos, while at the same time the Greeks dared to go at the Chians' request no farther east than Delos [25.2833,37.4] (Perseus)Delos. It was fear which kept the middle space between them.