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greater portion of the allies betraying the common cause, they for
their part, scorning to imitate the base conduct of these traitors,
although they were left almost alone and unsupported, a very few
friends continuing to stand by them, notwithstanding went on with
the fight, and ofttimes cut the line of the enemy, until at last,
after they had taken very many of their adversaries' ships, they ended
by losing more than half of their own. Hereupon, with the remainder of
their vessels, the Chians fled away to their own country.
As for such of their ships as were damaged and disabled, these,
being pursued by the enemy, made straight for Mycale, where the
crews ran them ashore, and abandoning them began their march along the
continent. Happening in their way upon the territory of Ephesus,
they essayed to cross it; but here a dire misfortune befell them. It
was night, and the Ephesian women chanced to be engaged in celebrating
the Thesmophoria- the previous calamity of the Chians had not been
heard of- so when the Ephesians saw their country invaded by an
armed band, they made no question of the new-comers being robbers
who purposed to carry off their women; and accordingly they marched
out against them in full force, and slew them all. Such were the
misfortunes which befell them of Chios.
Dionysius, the Phocaean, when he perceived that all was lost,
having first captured three ships from the enemy, himself took to
flight. He would not, however, return to Phocaea, which he well knew
must fall again, like the rest of Ionia, under the Persian yoke; but
straightway, as he was, he set sail for Phoenicia, and there sunk a
number of merchantmen, and gained a great booty; after which he
directed his course to Sicily, where he established himself as a
corsair, and plundered the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but did no
harm to the Greeks.
The Persians, when they had vanquished the Ionians in the
sea-fight, besieged Miletus both by land and sea, driving mines
under the walls, and making use of every known device, until at length
they took both the citadel and the town, six years from the time
when the revolt first broke out under Aristagoras. All the inhabitants
of the city they reduced to slavery, and thus the event tallied with
the announcement which had been made by the oracle.
For once upon a time, when the Argives had sent to Delphi to
consult the god about the safety of their own city, a prophecy was
given them, in which others besides themselves were interested; for
while it bore in part upon the fortunes of Argos, it touched in a
by-clause the fate of the men of Miletus. I shall set down the portion
which concerned the Argives when I come to that part of my History,
mentioning at present only the passage in which the absent Milesians
were spoken of. This passage was as follows:-

Then shalt thou, Miletus, so oft the contriver of evil,
Be, thyself, to many a least and an excellent booty:
Then shall thy matrons wash the feet of long-haired masters-
Others shall then possess our lov'd Didymian temple.

Such a fate now befell the Milesians; for the Persians, who wore their
hair long, after killing most of the men, made the women and
children slaves; and the sanctuary at Didyma, the oracle no less
than the temple was plundered and burnt; of the riches whereof I
have made frequent mention in other parts of my History.
Those of the Milesians whose lives were spared, being carried
prisoners to Susa, received no ill treatment at the hands of King
Darius, but were established by him in Ampe, a city on the shores of
the Erythraean sea, near the spot where the Tigris flows into it.
Miletus itself, and the plain about the city, were kept by the
Persians for themselves, while the hill-country
was assigned to the Carians of Pedasus.
And now the Sybarites, who after the loss of their city occupied
Laus and Scidrus, failed duly to return the former kindness of the