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This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that 1
neither the events of men may be erased by time, nor the great and marvelous works,
some displayed by Greeks, others by barbarians, may become renownless, and especially
5 for what cause they fought with one another.

The learned among the Persians say that the Phoenicians were responsible for the dispute.
For they say that these men, having arrived from the sea called the Red Sea to this
sea, and having inhabited this land where they even now
10 dwell, immediately set out on long sea voyages, carrying
Egyptian and Assyrian wares, and arrived at other places, and indeed also at Argos.
Argos at that time was superior in all things to those in the land now
called Greece. The Phoenicians arrived at this
15 Argos and began to sell their cargo. On the fifth or sixth day
after they arrived, with almost everything sold,
there came to the sea many other women, and
indeed the king’s daughter; her name,
according to the same report that the Greeks also tell, was Io, daughter of Inachus.
20 These women stood at the stern of the ship and bought those
goods that they desired most; and the Phoenicians
gave the signal and rushed upon them. Most
of the women escaped, but Io and others were
snatched away. They threw them into the ship and departed, sailing
25 for Egypt. Thus the Persians say Io arrived in Egypt,
not as the Greeks say, and of the injustices—

11. others cod. Paris. 1405. Schäfer: other land