they at all events would not escape unpunished for
their revolt, but he inquired into who the Athenians were; and when
he had been informed, he asked for his bow, and having received it
and placed an arrow upon the string, he discharged it upwards towards
heaven, and as he shot into the air he said: "Zeus, that it may be
granted me to take vengeance upon the Athenians!" Having so said he
charged one of his attendants, that when dinner was set before the king
he should say always three times: "Master, remember the Athenians."

106. When he had given this charge, he called into his presence
Histiaios the Milesian, whom Dareios had now been keeping with him for a
long time, and said: "I am informed, Histiaios, that thy deputy, to whom
thou didst depute the government of Miletos, has made rebellion against
me; for he brought in men against me from the other continent and
persuaded the Ionians also,--who shall pay the penalty to me for that
which they did,--these, I say, he persuaded to go together with them,
and thus he robbed me of Sardis. Now therefore how thinkest thou that
this is well? and how without thy counsels was anything of this kind
done? Take heed lest thou afterwards find reason to blame thyself for
this." Histiaios replied: "O king, what manner of speech is this that
thou hast uttered, saying that I counselled a matter from which it was
likely that any vexation would grow for thee, either great or small?
What have I to seek for in addition to that which I have, that I should
do these things; and of what am I in want? for I have everything that
thou hast, and I am thought worthy by thee to hear all thy counsels.
Nay, but if my deputy is indeed acting in any such manner as thou
hast said, be assured that he has done it merely on his own account. I
however, for my part, do not even admit the report to be true, that the
Milesians and my deputy are acting in any rebellious fashion against thy
power: but if it prove that they are indeed doing anything of that kind,
and if that which thou hast heard, O king, be the truth, learn then what
a thing thou didst in removing me away from the sea-coast; for it seems
that the Ionians, when I had gone out of the sight of their eyes, did
that which they had long had a desire to do; whereas if I had been in
Ionia, not a city would have made the least movement. Now therefore as
quickly as possible let me set forth to go to Ionia, that I may order
all these matters for thee as th