here fell also Eualkides
commander of the Eretrians, a man who had won wreaths in contests of
the games and who was much celebrated by Simonides of Keos: and those of
them who survived the battle dispersed to their various cities.

103. Thus then they fought at that time; and after the battle the
Athenians left the Ionians together, and when Aristagoras was urgent
in calling upon them by messengers for assistance, they said that
they would not help them: the Ionians, however, though deprived of the
alliance of the Athenians, none the less continued to prepare for the
war with the king, so great had been the offences already committed by
them against Dareios. They sailed moreover to the Hellespont and brought
under their power Byzantion and all the other cities which are in those
parts; and then having sailed forth out of the Hellespont, they gained
in addition the most part of Caria to be in alliance with them: for even
Caunos, which before was not willing to be their ally, then, after they
had burnt Sardis, was added to them also.

104. The Cyprians too, excepting those of Amathus, were added
voluntarily to their alliance; for these also had revolted from the
Medes in the following manner:--there was one Onesilos, younger brother
of Gorgos king of Salamis, and son of Chersis, the son of Siromos, the
son of Euelthon. This man in former times too had been wont often to
advise Gorgos to make revolt from the king, and at this time, when
he heard that the Ionians had revolted, he pressed him very hard and
endeavoured to urge him to it. Since however he could not persuade
Gorgos, Onesilos watched for a time when he had gone forth out of the
city of Salamis, and then together with the men of his own faction he
shut him out of the gates. Gorgos accordingly being robbed of the city
went for refuge to the Medes, and Onesilos was ruler of Salamis and
endeavoured to persuade all the men of Cyprus to join him in revolt. The
others then he persuaded; but since those of Amathus were not willing to
do as he desired, he sat down before their city and besieged it.

105. Onesilos then was besieging Amathus; and meanwhile, when it was
reported to king Dareios that Sardis had been captured and burnt by the
Athenians and the Ionians together, and that the leader of the league
for being about these things 88 was the Milesian Aristagoras, it is said
that at first being informed of this he made no account of the Ionians,
because he knew that