The histories of Herodotus;

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that time, as the Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were
the Crotonians,
and preparing to make war against Crotona :
being much alarmed, implored Dorieus to assist them, and
obtained their request; whereupon Dorieus marched with
them against Sybaris, and took Sybaris in concert with them.
Now, the Sybarites say that Dorieus, and those who were
with him, did this. But the Crotonians affirm that no foreigner
took part with them in the war against the Sybarites,
except only Callias of Elis, a seer of the Iamidae, and he did
so under the following circumstances : he had fled from Telys,
King of the Sybarites, and come over to them, when the victims
did not prove favourable as he was sacrificing against
Crotona. Such is the account they give. Each party produces
the following proofs of what they assert : The Sybarites allege
a sacred inclosure and temple near the dry Crastis, 1 which
they say Dorieus, when he had assisted in taking the city,
erected to Minerva, surnamed Crastian ; and in the next place
they mention the death of Dorieus as the greatest proof, for
that he was killed for having acted contrary to the warnings
of the oracle. For if he had not at all transgressed, but had
done that for which he was sent, he would have taken and
possessed the Erycinian country, and having taken it would
have retained it, nor would he and his army have been destroyed.
On the other hand, the Crotonians show selected
portions of land given to Callias the Elean in the territories
of Crotona, which the descendants of Callias continued to
occupy even in my time; but to Dorieus, and the posterity
of Dorieus, nothing was given : whereas, if Dorieus had assisted
them in the Sybaritic war, much more would have been
given to him than to Callias. These, then, are the proofs that
each produces, and every man has the liberty of adhering to
that which he judges most probable. There sailed with Dorieus
also other Spartans, joint founders of a colony, as Thessalus,
Parsebates, Celeas, and Euryleon ; who, on their arrival
with the whole armament in Sicily, were killed, being
defeated in battle by the Phoenicians and Egestaeans. Euryleon
alone of the associates in founding the colony survived
this disaster: he, having collected the survivors of the army,
possessed himself of Minoa, a colony of the Selinuntians, and
assisted in liberating the Selinuntians from their monarch
Pythagoras. But afterward, when he had removed him, he
himself seized the tyranny of Selinus, and continued monarch
for a short time ; for the Selinuntians, having risen up against
him, put him to death, though he had taken sanctuary at the
1 Called "dry" because its stream was dried up in summer.
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