that he would
conquer it. Dorieos therefore took with him the armament which he
conducted before to Libya, and voyaged along the coast of Italy. 28

44. Now at this time, the men of Sybaris say that they and their king
Telys were about to make an expedition against Croton, and the men of
Croton being exceedingly alarmed asked Dorieos to help them and obtained
their request. So Dorieos joined them in an expedition against Sybaris
and helped them to conquer Sybaris. This is what the men of Sybaris say
of the doings of Dorieos and his followers; but those of Croton say that
no stranger helped them in the war against the Sybarites except Callias
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 the despot of
the Sybarites, when the sacrifices did not prove favourable, as he was
sacrificing for the expedition against Croton, and so he came to them.

45. Such, I say, are the tales which these tell, and they severally
produce as evidence of them the following facts:--the Sybarites point
to a sacred enclosure and temple by the side of the dried-up bed of
the Crathis, 29 which they say that Dorieos, after he had joined in the
capture of the city, set up to Athene surnamed "of the Crathis"; and
besides they consider the death of Dorieos himself to be a very strong
evidence, thinking that he perished because he acted contrary to the
oracle which was given to him; for if he had not done anything by the
way but had continued to do that for which he was sent, he would have
conquered the land of Eryx and having conquered it would have become
possessor of it, and he and his army would not have perished. On the
other hand the men of Croton declare that many things were granted in
the territory of Croton as special gifts to Callias the Eleisan, of
which the descendants of Callias were still in possession down to my
time, and that nothing was granted to Dorieos or the descendants of
Dorieos: but if Dorieos had in fact helped them in the way with Sybaris,
many times as much, they say, would have been given to him as to
Callias. These then are the evidences which the two sides produce, and
we may assent to whichever of them we think credible.

46. Now there sailed with Dorieos others also of the Spartans, to be
joint-founders with him of the colony, namely Thessalos and Paraibates
and Keleas and Euryleon; and these when they had reached Sicily with all
their a