Histories

As the Samian stranger was pleading so earnestly, Leutychides asked him (whether it was that he desired to know for the sake of a presage, or through some happy chance of a god), “Samian stranger, what is your name?” “Hegesistratus,”[*](Hegesistratus = Army-leader.) he replied.

Then Leutychides cut short whatever else Hegesistratus had begun to say, and cried: “I accept the omen of your name, Samian stranger; now see to it that before you sail from here you and those who are with you pledge that the Samians will be our zealous allies.”

He said this and added deed to word. For straightway the Samians bound themselves by pledge and oath to alliance with the Greeks.

This done, the rest sailed away, but Leutychides bade Hegesistratus to sail with the Greeks because of the good omen of his name. The Greeks waited through that day, and on the next they sought and received favorable augury; their diviner was Deiphonus son of Evenius, a man of that +Apollonia [14.5833,38.0167] (Perseus) Apollonia which is in the Ionian gulf. This man's father Evenius had once fared as I will now relate.