I myself saw these mines, and by much the most marvellous of them were those which the Phoenicians discovered, who made the first settlement in this island in company with Thasos; and the island had the name which it now has from this Thasos the Phoenician. These Phoenician mines are in that part of Thasos which is between the places called Ainyra and Koinyra and opposite Samothrace, where there is a great mountain which has been all turned up in the search for metal. Thus it is with this matter: and the Thasians on the command of the king both razed their walls and brought all their ships to Abdera.