Histories

Herodotus

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

for Bacis' oracle concerning this matter runs as follows

  1. When a strange-tongued man casts a yoke of papyrus on the waves,
  2. Then take care to keep bleating goats far from the coasts of +Euboea [23.833,38.566] (island), Nomos Evvoias, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Euboea
To these verses the Euboeans gave no heed; but in the evils then present and soon to come they suffered the greatest calamity.