Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 145

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At the same time that he was doing this, another great force was sent against Libya, for the reason that I shall give after I finish the story that I am going to tell now. [2] The descendants of the crew of the Argo were driven out by the Pelasgians who carried off the Athenian women from Brauron; after being driven out of Lemnos by them, they sailed away to Lacedaemon, and there camped on Teügetum and kindled a fire. [3] Seeing it, the Lacedaemonians sent a messenger to inquire who they were and where they came from. They answered the messenger that they were Minyae, descendants of the heroes who had sailed in the Argo and put in at Lemnos and there begot their race. [4] Hearing the story of the lineage of the Minyae, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time and asked why they had come into Laconia and kindled a fire. They replied that, having been expelled by the Pelasgians, they had come to the land of their fathers, as was most just; and their wish was to live with their fathers' people, sharing in their rights and receiving allotted pieces of land. [5] The Lacedaemonians were happy to receive the Minyae¹ on the terms which their guests desired; the chief cause of their consenting was that the Tyndaridae² had been in the ship's company of the Argo; so they received the Minyae and gave them land and distributed them among their own tribes. The Minyae immediately married, and gave in marriage to others the women they had brought from Lemnos.

1 As descendants of the Argonauts, who were Minyae of Thessaly, living near the Pagasaean gulf.

2 Castor and Polydeuces.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Trachiniae, 441
Cross-references to this page (6):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), NAVIS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LEMNOS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MI´NYAE
- Smith's Bio, Dareius I.
- Smith's Bio, Mi'nyae
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- LSJ, Τα_ΰγετον
- LSJ, Τυνδάρεος
- LSJ, ἁνδάνω
- LSJ, ἀνακαίω
- LSJ, ἀπολαγχάνω
- LSJ, αἴθω
- LSJ, διαδα^τέομαι
- LSJ, ἐνάγω
- LSJ, ἐρωτ-άω
- LSJ, φυ_λή
- LSJ, φυ^τ-εύω
- LSJ, ἵζω
- LSJ, μέν
- LSJ, μεταδίδωμι
- LSJ, ναυτι^λ-ία
- LSJ, οἴχομαι
- LSJ, πρόφα^σ-ις
- LSJ, προδι-ηγέομαι
- LSJ, στόλος

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