. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . w desperate, agreed with his partisans that they should expatriate themselves. He fell fighting against the Edonians of Thrace, attempting to force the important town of Enneahodoi, near the mouth of the Strymon (496); ^ but his defection had not discouraged any one, and Histiseus, who had been sent to Sardes by the great king to negotiate the submission of the rebels, failed in his errand. Even when blockaded on the land side, Miletus could defy an attack so long as communication with the sea was not cut off. Darius therefore brought
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . w desperate, agreed with his partisans that they should expatriate themselves. He fell fighting against the Edonians of Thrace, attempting to force the important town of Enneahodoi, near the mouth of the Strymon (496); ^ but his defection had not discouraged any one, and Histiseus, who had been sent to Sardes by the great king to negotiate the submission of the rebels, failed in his errand. Even when blockaded on the land side, Miletus could defy an attack so long as communication with the sea was not cut off. Darius therefore brought up the Phoenician fleet, reinforced it with the Cypriot contingents, and despatched the united squadrons to the Archipelago during the summer 1 In Herodotus the town is not named, but a passage in Thucydidesshows that it was Enneahodoi, afterwards Amphipolis, and that the death ofAristagoras took place thirty-two years before the Athenian defeat atDrabeskos, probably in 496. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the terra-cotta group in the New VOL. IX. 210 THE LAST DAYS OP THE OLD EASTERN WORLD of 494. The confederates, even after the disasters of thepreceding years, still possessed 353 vessels, most of them of80 to 50 oars; they were, however, completely defeatednear the small island of Lade, in the latter part of thesummer, and Miletus, from that moment cut off from therest of the world, capitulated a few weeks later. A smallproportion of its inhabitants continued to dwell in theruined city, but the greater number were carried away toAmpI, at the mouth of the Tigris, in the marshes of theNar-Marratum.^ Caria was reconquered during the winterof 494-493, and by the early part of 493, Chios, Lesbos,Tenedos, the cities of the Ohersonnesus and of Propontis—in short, all which yet held out—were reduced to reorganised his vanquished states entirely inthe interest of Persia. He did not interfere with the con-stitutions of the several republics,
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