Histories

Herodotus

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

Such was Gelon's offer, and the Athenian envoy answered him before the Lacedaemonian could speak. “King of the Syracusans,” he said, “Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas sends us to you to ask not for a leader but for an army. You however, say no word of sending an army without the condition of your being the leader of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas; it is the command alone that you desire.