Mys
Family: Europos · Role: envoy sent to consult oracles · First appears: Book 8 · §130–136
Life events
- Mardonios sent Mys to consult oracles about his current affairs.(Book 8 · §130–136 · 📍 Thessaly)
- With: Mardonios
- “From thence he sent round a man, a native of Europos, whose name was Mys, to the various Oracles, charging him to go everywhere to consult, wherever they were permitted to make trial of the Oracles.”
- Mys recorded that the prophet gave the oracle in the Carian tongue.(Book 8 · §130–136 · 📍 Ptoon)
- “it is said that the man of Europos, Mys, snatched from them the tablet which they bore and wrote upon it that which was being spoken by the prophet; and he said that the prophet was giving his answer in the Carian tongue”
Book 8 · §130–136
- with Mardonios (Mardonios sent Mys to consult oracles.) “From thence he sent round a man, a native of Europos, whose name was Mys”
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