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Milesians. For these last, when Sybaris was taken by the Crotoniats,
made a great mourning, all of them, youths as well as men, shaving
their heads; since Miletus and Sybaris were, of all the cities whereof
we have any knowledge, the two most closely united to one another. The
Athenians, on the other hand, showed themselves beyond measure
afflicted at the fall of Miletus, in many ways expressing their
sympathy, and especially by their treatment of Phrynichus. For when
this poet brought out upon the stage his drama of the Capture of
Miletus, the whole theatre burst into tears; and the people
sentenced him to pay a fine of a thousand drachms, for recalling to
them their own misfortunes. They likewise made a law that no one
should ever again exhibit that piece.
Thus was Miletus bereft of its inhabitants. In Samos the people of
the richer sort were much displeased with the doings of the
captains, and the dealings they had had the Medes; they therefore held
a council, very shortly after the sea-fight, and resolved that they
would not remain to become the slaves of Aeaces and the Persians,
but before the tyrant set foot in their country, would sail away and
found a colony in another land. Now it chanced that about this time
the Zanclaeans of Sicily had sent ambassadors to the Ionians, and
invited them to Kale-Acte where they wished an Ionian city to be
founded. This place, Kale-Acte (or the Fair Strand) as it is called,
is in the country of the Sicilians, and is situated in the part of
Sicily which looks towards Tyrrhenia. The offer thus made to all the
Ionians was embraced only by the Samians, and by such of the Milesians
as had contrived to effect their escape.
Hereupon this is what ensued. The Samians on their voyage
reached the country of the Epizephyrian Locrians, at a time when the
Zanclaeans and their king Scythas were engaged in the siege of a
Sicilian town which they hoped to take. Anaxilaus, tyrant of
Rhegium, who was on ill terms with the Zanclaeans knowing how
matters stood, made application to the Samians, and persuaded them
to give up the thought of Kale-Acte the place to which they were
bound, and to seize Zancle itself, which was left without men. The
Samians followed this counsel and possessed themselves of the town;
which the Zanclaeans no sooner heard than they hurried to the
rescue, calling to their aid Hippocrates, tyrant of Gela, who was
one of their allies. Hippocrates came with his army to their
assistance; but on his arrival he seized Scythas, the Zanclaean
king, who had just lost his city, and sent him away in chains,
together with his brother Pythogenes, to the town of Inycus; after
which he came to an understanding with the Samians, exchanged oaths
with them, and agreed to betray the people of Zancle. The reward of
his treachery was to be one-half of the goods and chattels,
including slaves, which the town contained, and all that he could find
in the open country. Upon this Hippocrates seized and bound the
greater number of the Zanclaeans as slaves; delivering, however,
into the hands of the Samians three hundred of the principal citizens,
to be slaughtered; but the Samians spared the lives of these persons.
Scythas, the king of the Zanclaeans, made his escape from
Inycus, and fled to Himera; whence he passed into Asia, and went up to
the court of Darius. Darius thought him the most upright of all the
Greeks to whom he afforded a refuge; for with the king's leave he paid
a visit to Sicily, and thence returned back to Persia, where he
lived in great comfort, and died by a natural death at an advanced
age.
Thus did the Samians escape the yoke of the Medes, and possess
themselves without any trouble of Zancle, a most beautiful city. At
Samos itself the Phoenicians, after the fight which had Miletus for
its prize was over, re-established Aeaces, the son of Syloson, upon
his throne. This they did by the command of the Persians, who looked
upon Aeaces as one who had rendered them a high service and
therefore deserved well at their hands. They likewise spared the
Samians, on account of the desertion of their vessels, and did not