The Histories · 3.149

As to Samos, the Persians, after sweeping the population off it, delivered it to Syloson stripped of men. Afterwards however the commander Otanes even joined in settling people there, moved by a vision of a dream and by a disease which seized him, so that he was diseased in the genital organs.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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