commander of the Arcadians in the
fortified quarter, to a parley, upon condition that, if they could
not agree, he was to be put back safe and sound in the fortification.
However, upon his coming out to him, he put him into custody, though not
in chains, and attacked suddenly and took by surprise the fortification,
and putting the Arcadians and the barbarians found in it to the sword,
afterwards took Hippias into it as he had promised, and, as soon as he
was inside, seized him and shot him down. Paches then gave up Notium to
the Colophonians not of the Median party; and settlers were afterwards
sent out from Athens, and the place colonized according to Athenian
laws, after collecting all the Colophonians found in any of the cities.

Arrived at Mitylene, Paches reduced Pyrrha and Eresus; and finding the
Lacedaemonian, Salaethus, in hiding in the town, sent him off to Athens,
together with the Mitylenians that he had placed in Tenedos, and any
other persons that he thought concerned in the revolt. He also sent
back the greater part of his forces, remaining with the rest to settle
Mitylene and the rest of Lesbos as he thought best.

Upon the arrival of the prisoners with Salaethus, the Athenians at once
put the latter to death, although he offered, among other things, to
procure the withdrawal of the Peloponnesians from Plataea, which was
still under siege; and after deliberating as to what they should do with
the former, in the fury of the moment determined to put to death not
only the prisoners at Athens, but the whole adult male population of
Mitylene, and to make slaves of the women and children. It was remarked
that Mitylene had revolted without being, like the rest, subjected to
the empire; and what above all swelled the wrath of the Athenians was
the fact of the Peloponnesian fleet having ventured over to Ionia to her
support, a fact which was held to argue a long meditated rebellion.
They accordingly sent a galley to communicate the decree to Paches,
commanding him to lose no time in dispatching the Mitylenians. The
morrow brought repentance with it and reflection on the horrid cruelty
of a decree, which condemned a whole city to the fate merited only by
the guilty. This was no sooner perceived by the Mitylenian ambassadors
at Athens and their Athenian supporters, than they moved the authorities
to put the question again to the vote; which they the more easily
consented to do, as they themselves plainly saw that mo