Histories

Herodotus

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

With this design they put to sea. So when they came past the temple of the Goddesses[*](Demeter and Persephone.) at Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale to the Gaeson and Scolopois,[*](The Gaeson was probably a stream running south of the hill called Mykale [26.8667,38.1] (Perseus)Mykale; Scolopois, a place on its east bank (How and Wells).) where there is a temple of Eleusinian Demeter (which was built by Philistus son of Pasicles when he went with Nileus son of Codrus to the founding of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus), they beached their ships and fenced them round with stones and the trunks of orchard trees which they cut down; they drove in stakes around the fence and prepared for siege or victory, making ready, after consideration, for either event.