er, and with them
also those Aiolians who inhabit Lesbos; and they were drawn up in
order thus:--the extremity of the line towards the East was held by the
Milesians themselves, who furnished eighty ships; next to them were
the Prienians with twelve ships and the men of Myus with three; next to
those of Myus were the Teians with seventeen ships, and after the
Teians the Chians with a hundred; after these were stationed the men
of Erythrai and of Phocaia, the former furnishing eight ships and the
latter three; next to the Phocaians were the Lesbians with seventy
ships, and last, holding the extremity of the line towards the West,
were stationed the Samians with sixty ships. Of all these the total
number proved to be three hundred and fifty-three triremes..

9. These were the ships of the Ionians; and of the Barbarians the number
of ships was six hundred. When these too were come to the Milesian coast
and their whole land-army was also there, then the commanders of the
Persians, being informed of the number of the Ionian ships, were struck
with fear lest they should be unable to overcome them, and thus on the
one hand should not be able to conquer Miletos from not having command
of the sea, and at the same time should run a risk of being punished by
Dareios. Reflecting upon these things they gathered together the despots
of the Ionians who were exiles with the Medes, having been deposed from
their governments by Aristagoras the Milesian, and who chanced to be
then joining in the expedition against Miletos,--of these men they
called together those who were present and spoke to them as follows:
"Ionians, now let each one of you show himself a benefactor of the
king's house, that is to say, let each one of you endeavour to detach
his own countrymen from the body of the alliance: and make your
proposals promising at the same time that they shall suffer nothing
unpleasant on account of the revolt, and neither their temples nor their
private houses shall be burnt, nor shall they have any worse treatment
than they had before this; but if they will not do so, but will by all
means enter into a contest with us, threaten them and tell them this,
which in truth shall happen to them, namely that if they are worsted in
the fight they shall be reduced to slavery, and we shall make their sons
eunuchs, and their maidens we shall remove to Bactria, and deliver their
land to others.".

10. They thus spoke; and the despots of Ionia sent ea