- He then was doing thus; and at this very same time a great expedition was being made also against Libya, on an occasion which I shall relate when I have first related this which follows.—The children’s children of those who voyaged in the Argo, having been driven forth by those Pelasgians who carried away at Brauron the women of the Athenians—having been driven forth I say by these from Lemnos, had departed and sailed to Lacedaemon, and sitting down on Mount Taygetos they kindled a fire. The Lacedaemonians seeing this sent a messenger to inquire who they were and from whence; and they answered the question of the messenger saying that they were Minyai and children of heroes who sailed in the Argo, for these, they said, had put in to Lemnos and propagated the race of which they sprang. The Lacedaemonians having heard the story of the descent of the Minyai, sent a second time and asked for what purpose they
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