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    Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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    CLXX. When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion, Bias of Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks: [2] for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and then found one city for all Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them. [3] This was the advice which Bias of Priene gave after the destruction of the Ionians; and that given before the destruction by Thales of Miletus, a Phoenician by descent, was good too; he advised that the Ionians have one place of deliberation, and that it be in Teos (for that was the center of Ionia), and that the other cities be considered no more than demes.

    Thus Bias and Thales advised.


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    Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    book 1 (general note)
    book 1 (general note)
    book 1, chapter 170 (general note)
    book 1, chapter 170, section 1 (general note)
    book 1, chapter 170, section 2 (general note)
    book 1, chapter 170, section 3: Phoinikos

    Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
    herodotus-3 [Herodotus and Homer (3)]
    herodotus-3 [Herodotus: A Dorian writing in the Ionic Greek dialect (3)]

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    Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
    OCLC: 1610641
    ISBN: 0674991303, 0674991311, 0674991338, 0674991346

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