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Theras now, having with him a certain number of men from each of the
tribes, was setting forth on his expedition hitherward. Far from
intending to drive out the former inhabitants, he regarded them as his
near kin, and meant to settle among them. It happened that just at
this time the Minyae, having escaped from their prison, had taken up
their station upon Mount Taygetum; and the Lacedaemonians, wishing
to destroy them, were considering what was best to be done, when
Theras begged their lives, undertaking to remove them from the
territory. His prayer being granted, he took ship, and sailed, with
three triaconters, to join the descendants of Membliarus. He was
not, however, accompanied by all the Minyae, but only by some few of
them. The greater number fled to the land of the Paroreats and
Caucons, whom they drove out, themselves occupying the region in six
bodies, by which were afterwards built the towns of Lepreum,
Macistus, Phryxae, Pyrgus, Epium, and Nudium; whereof the
greater part were in my day demolished by the Eleans.
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