Herodotus Iii Defining The Persians Encyclopaedia Iranica
Then when they had made all items prepared they set sail for Hellas, and touching at different locations they saw the coast regions of it and wrote down a description, till at final, when they had noticed the higher quantity of the famous locations, they came to Taras 120 in Italy. There from complaisance 121to Demokedes Aristophilides the king of the Tarentines unfastened and removed the steering-oars of the Median ships, and also confined the Persians in prison, because, as…