'After dividing up Messenia, (the Lacedaemonians) came back home where they did not honor the Parheniae like the other citizens because they were born out of wedlock. And the Partheniae joining forces with the Helots conspired against the Lacedaemonians and agreed to raise in the market place a Laconian cap as a signal for the operation. Some Helots revealed the plan and they (Lacedaemonians) thought a counter-attack to be toilsome, because they were numerous and of the same mind thinking of each other as brothers, ordered the ones who were going to raise the signal to leave the market. Learning that the deed was betrayed, (the plotters) abstained, while (the Lacedaeminians) through their parents convinced them to go forth and found a colony, and if the seized land was enough to stay there, otherwise to retarn back and given one fifth of Messenia. And they were sent forth and found the Achaeans fighting the natives, participated in the risks and founded Taras.' From Strabo's Geography. Book 6:3(3).
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Peccato che le colonne se le sono portate via!!!
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'After dividing up Messenia, (the Lacedaemonians) came back home where they did not honor the Parheniae like the other citizens because they were born out of wedlock. And the Partheniae joining forces with the Helots conspired against the Lacedaemonians and agreed to raise in the market place a Laconian cap as a signal for the operation. Some Helots revealed the plan and they (Lacedaemonians) thought a counter-attack to be toilsome, because they were numerous and of the same mind thinking of each other as brothers, ordered the ones who were going to raise the signal to leave the market. Learning that the deed was betrayed, (the plotters) abstained, while (the Lacedaeminians) through their parents convinced them to go forth and found a colony, and if the seized land was enough to stay there, otherwise to retarn back and given one fifth of Messenia. And they were sent forth and found the Achaeans fighting the natives, participated in the risks and founded Taras.' From Strabo's Geography. Book 6:3(3).
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Molto Bella la composizione. Complimenti
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Peccato per il colore del cielo cosi scialbo. Ciao e saluti da M.Cocuzzo
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