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others sought to drag him from his refuge; but, finding themselves
unable to tear him away, they cut off his hands, and so took him,
leaving the hands still tightly grasping the handles.
Such were the doings of the Eginetans among themselves. When the
Athenians arrived, they went out to meet them with seventy ships;
and a battle took place, wherein the Eginetans suffered a defeat.
Hereupon they had recourse again to their old allies, the Argives; but
these latter refused now to lend them any aid, being angry because
some Eginetan ships, which Cleomenes had taken by force, accompanied
him in his invasion of Argolis, and joined in the disembarkation.
The same thing had happened at the same time With certain vessels of
the Sicyonians; and the Argives had laid a fine of a thousand
talents upon the misdoers, five hundred upon each: whereupon they of
Sicyon acknowledged themselves to have sinned, and agreed with the
Argives to pay them a hundred talents, and so be quit of the debt; but
the Eginetans would make no acknowledgment at all, and showed
themselves proud and stiffnecked. For this reason, when they now
prayed the Argives for aid, the state refused to send them a single
soldier. Notwithstanding, volunteers joined them from Argos to the
number of a thousand, under a captain, Eurybates, a man skilled in the
pentathlic contests. Of these men the greater part never returned, but
were slain by the Athenians in Egina. Eurybates, their captain, fought
a number of single combats, and, after killing three men in this
way, was himself slain by the fourth, who was a Decelean, named
Sophanes.
Afterwards the Eginetans fell upon the Athenian fleet when it
was in some disorder and beat it, capturing four ships with their
crews.
Thus did war rage between the Eginetans and Athenians. Meantime
the Persian pursued his own design, from day to day exhorted by his
servant to "remember the Athenians," and likewise urged continually by
the Pisistratidae, who were ever accusing their countrymen. Moreover
it pleased him well to have a pretext for carrying war into Greece,
that so he might reduce all those who had refused to give him earth
and water. As for Mardonius, since his expedition had succeeded so
ill, Darius took the command of the troops from him, and appointed
other generals in his stead, who were to lead the host against Eretria
and Athens; to wit, Datis, who was by descent a Mede, and Artaphernes,
the son of Artaphernes, his own nephew. These men received orders to
carry Athens and Eretria away captive, and to bring the prisoners into
his presence.
So the new commanders took their departure from the court and went
down to Cilicia, to the Aleian plain, having with them a numerous
and wellappointed land army. Encamping here, they were joined by the
sea force which had been required of the several states, and at the
same time by the horsetransports which Darius had, the year before,
commanded his tributaries to make ready. Aboard these the horses
were embarked; and the troops were received by the ships of war; after
which the whole fleet, amounting in all to six hundred triremes,
made sail for Ionia. Thence, instead of proceeding with a straight
course along the shore to the Hellespont and to Thrace, they loosed
from Samos and voyaged across the Icarian sea through the midst of the
islands; mainly, as I believe, because they feared the danger of
doubling Mount Athos, where the year before they had suffered so
grievously on their passage; but a constraining cause also was their
former failure to take Naxos.
When the Persians, therefore, approaching from the Icarian Sea,
cast anchor at Naxos, which, recollecting what there befell them
formerly, they had determined to attack before any other state, the
Naxians, instead of encountering them, took to flight, and hurried off
to the hills. The Persians however succeeded in laying hands on
some, and them they carried away captive, while at the same time
they burnt all the temples together with the town. This done, they
left Naxos, and sailed away to the other islands.