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

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II. In this way, the Persians say (and not as the Greeks), was how Io came to Egypt, and this, according to them, was the first wrong that was done. Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa. These Greeks must, I suppose, have been Cretans. So far, then, the account between them was balanced. But after this (they say), it was the Greeks who were guilty of the second wrong. [2] They sailed in a long ship to Aea, a city of the Colchians, and to the river Phasis:¹ and when they had done the business for which they came, they carried off the king's daughter Medea. [3] When the Colchian king sent a herald to demand reparation for the robbery and restitution of his daughter, the Greeks replied that, as they had been refused reparation for the abduction of the Argive Io, they would not make any to the Colchians.

¹ This is the legendary cruise of the Argonauts.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 1 (general note)
book 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 2 (general note)
book 1, chapter 2, section 1: basileos
book 1, chapter 2, section 1: Krêtes
book 1, chapter 2, section 2: makrêi
book 1, chapter 2, section 2: talla

Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
herodotus-3 [Herodotus and Homer (3)]

Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
1182: eiêsan d' an houtoi Krêtes

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
* [720-1043: Second episode]: eiêsan d' an houtoi Krêtes

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
464 [Bemerkungen über die angeführten Stellungen des Artikels bei attributiven Bestimmungen.]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
535 [Oute . . oute, mête . . mête). — Oude, mêde.]

Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone:
* [100-161]: isa pros isa

Cross references from W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886):
10, 135 [Book 10 (k)]

Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
238 [I. Potential Optative.]
443 [Homeric Usages in Herodotus and in Attic Greek.]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
34, 437 [an with the Present Optative of the Past:]
42, 534 [Possessive article. ]

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