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exceedingly alarmed asked Dorieos to help them and obtained theirrequest. So Dorieos joined them in an expedition against Sybaris andhelped them to conquer Sybaris. This is what the men of Sybaris say ofthe doings of Dorieos and his followers; but those of Croton say thatno stranger helped them in the war against the Sybarites exceptCallias alone, a diviner of Elis and one of the descendants of Iamos,and he in the following manner:--he ran away, they say, from Telys thedespot of the Sybarites, when the sacrifices did not prove favourable,as he was sacrificing for the expedition against Croton, and so hecame to them. 45. Such, I say, are the tales which these tell, andthey severally produce as evidence of them the following facts:--theSybarites point to a sacred enclosure and temple by the side of thedried-up bed of the Crathis,[29] which they say that Dorieos, after hehad joined in the capture of the city, set up to Athene surnamed "ofthe Crathis"; and besides they consider the death of Dorieos himselfto be a very strong evidence, thinking that he perished because heacted contrary to the oracle which was given to him; for if he had notdone anything by the way but had continued to do that for which he wassent, he would have conquered the land of Eryx and having conquered itwould have become possessor of it, and he and his army would not haveperished. On the other hand the men of Croton declare that many thingswere granted in the territory of Croton as special gifts to Calliasthe Eleisan, of which the descendants of Callias were still inpossession down to my time, and that nothing was granted to Dorieos orthe descendants of Dorieos: but if Dorieos had in fact helped them inthe way with Sybaris, many times as much, they say, would have beengiven to him as to Callias. These then are the evidences which the twosides produce, and we may assent to whichever of them we thinkcredible. 46. Now there sailed with Dorieos others also of theSpartans, to be joint-founders with him of the colony, namelyThessalos and Paraibates and Keleas and Euryleon; and these when theyhad reached Sicily with all their armament, were slain, being defeatedin battle by the Phenicians and the men of Egesta; and Euryleon onlyof the joint-founders survived this disaster. This man then havingcollected the survivors of the expedition, took possession of Minoathe colony of Selinus, and he helped to free the men of Selinus fromtheir despot Peithagoras. Afterwards, when he had deposed him, he laidhands himself upon the despotism in Selinus and became sole rulerthere, though but for a short time; for the men of Selinus rose inrevolt against him and slew him, notwithstanding that he had fled forrefuge to the altar of Zeus Agoraios.[30]47. There had accompanied Dorieos also and died with him Philip theson of Butakides, a man of Croton, who having betrothed himself to thedaughter of Telys the Sybarite, became an exile from Croton; and thenbeing disappointed of this marriage he sailed away to Kyrene, whence