Histories, 3.149

Herodotus  translated by G. C. Macaulay

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149As to Samos, the Persians, after sweeping the population off it,[131] delivered it to Syloson stripped of men. Afterwards however the commander Otanes even joined in settling people there, moved by a vision of a dream and by a disease which seized him, so that he was diseased in the genital organs.

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Notes

  • [131] {sageneusantes}: see vi. 31. The word is thought by Stein to have been interpolated here.