los, as he had concerted with his shield-bearer, struck at
Artybios himself, when he came to fight with him; and when the horse put
its hoofs against the shield of Onesilos, then the Carian struck with a
falchion 91 and smote off the horse's feet.

113. So Artybios the commander of the Persians fell there on the spot
together with his horse: and while the others also were fighting,
Stesenor the despot of Curion deserted them, having with him a
large force of men,--now these Curians are said to be settlers
from Argos,--and when the Curians had deserted, forthwith also the
war-chariots of the men of Salamis proceeded to do the same as the
Curians. When these things took place, the Persians had the advantage
over the Cyprians; and after their army had been put to rout, many
others fell and among them Onesilos the son of Chersis, he who brought
about the revolt of the Cyprians, and also the king of the Solians,
Aristokypros the son of Philokypros,--that Philokypros whom Solon the
Athenian, when he came to Cyprus, commended in verse above all other
despots.

114. So the men of Amathus cut off the head of Onesilos, because he had
besieged them; and having brought it to Amathus they hung it over the
gate of the city: and as the head hung there, when it had now become a
hollow, a swarm of bees entered into it and filled it with honeycomb.
This having so come to pass, the Amathusians consulted an Oracle about
the head, and they received an answer bidding them take it down and bury
it and sacrifice to Onesilos every year as a hero; and if they did this,
it would go better with them.

115. The Amathusians accordingly continued to do so even to my time. But
the Ionians who had fought the sea-fight in Cyprus, when they perceived
that the fortunes of Onesilos were ruined and that the cities of the
Cyprians were besieged, except Salamis, and that this city had been
delivered over by the Salaminians to Gorgos the former king,--as soon as
they perceived this, the Ionians sailed away back to Ionia. Now of the
cities in Cyprus Soloi held out for the longest time under the siege;
and the Persians took it in the fifth month by undermining the wall
round.

116. The Cyprians then, after they had made themselves free for one
year, had again been reduced to slavery afresh: and meanwhile Daurises,
who was married to a daughter of Dareios, and Hymaies and Otanes, who
were also Persian commanders and were married also to daughters
of Dareios,