The Histories · 5.125

Now the opinion of Hecataios the son of Hegesander the historian was that he should not take a colony to either of these places, but build a wall of defence for himself in the island of Leros and keep still, if he should be forced to leave Miletos; and afterwards with this for his starting point he would be able to return to Miletos.

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