ined in their places in the sea-fight the Chians
suffered very severely, 7 since they displayed brilliant deeds of valour
and refused to play the coward. These furnished, as was before said,
a hundred ships and in each of them forty picked men of their citizens
served as fighting-men; 8 and when they saw the greater number of their
allies deserting them, they did not think fit to behave like the
cowards among them, but left along with a few only of their allies they
continued to fight and kept breaking through the enemy's line; until at
last, after they had conquered many ships of the enemy, they lost the
greater number of their own..

16. The Chians then with the remainder of their ships fled away to
their own land; but those of the Chians whose ships were disabled by the
damage which they had received, being pursued fled for refuge to Mycale;
and their ships they ran ashore there and left them behind, while the
men proceeded over the mainland on foot: and when the Chians had entered
the Ephesian territory on their way, then since 801 they came into it by
night and at a time when a festival of Thesmophoria was being celebrated
by the women of the place, the Ephesians, not having heard beforehand
how it was with the Chians and seeing that an armed body had entered
their land, supposed certainly that they were robbers and had a design
upon the women; so they came out to the rescue in a body and slew the
Chians.

17. Such was the fortune which befell these men: but Dionysios the
Phocaian, when he perceived that the cause of the Ionians was ruined,
after having taken three ships of the enemy sailed away, not to Pocaia
any more, for he knew well that it would be reduced to slavery together
with the rest of Ionia, and he sailed forthwith straight to Phenicia;
and having there sunk merchant ships and taken a great quantity of
goods, he sailed thence to Sicily. Then with that for his starting-point
he became a freebooter, not plundering any Hellenes, but Carthaginians
and Tyrsenians only.

18. The Persians, then, being conquerors of the Ionians in the
sea-fight, besieged Miletos by land and sea, undermining the walls and
bringing against it all manner of engines; and they took it completely 9
in the sixth year from the revolt of Aristagoras, and reduced the people
to slavery; so that the disaster agreed with the oracle which had been
uttered with reference to Miletos..

19. For when the Argives were inquiring at Delphi abo