Histories

Herodotus

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

This argument was for vengeance,[*](Some take the Greek to mean “this argument was his helper”; but the statement seems rather pointless.) but he kept adding that Europe (continent)Europe was an extremely beautiful land, one that bore all kinds of orchard trees, a land of highest excellence, worthy of no mortal master but the king.

He said this because he desired adventures and wanted to be governor of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Finally he worked on Xerxes and persuaded him to do this, and other things happened that helped him to persuade Xerxes.

Messengers came from +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly from the Aleuadae (who were princes of +Thessaly [22.25,39.5] (region), Greece, Europe Thessaly) and invited the king into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas with all earnestness; the Pisistratidae who had come up to Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, AsiaSusa used the same pleas as the Aleuadae, offering Xerxes even more than they did.