after they had pursued those Ionians who had made the
expedition to Sardis and defeating them in battle had driven them
by force to their ships,--after this distributed the cities amongst
themselves and proceeded to sack them.

117. Daurises directed his march to the cities on the Hellespont, and he
took Dardanos and Abydos and Percote and Lampsacos and Paisos, of these
he took on each day one; and as he was marching from Paisos against the
city of Parion, the report came that the Carians had made common cause
with the Ionians and were in revolt from the Persians. He turned back
therefore from the Hellespont and marched his army upon Caria. 118.
And, as it chanced, a report of this was brought to the Carians before
Daurises arrived; and the Carians being informed of it gathered together
at the place which is called the "White Pillars" and at the river
Marsyas, which flows from the region of Idrias and runs out into the
Maiander. When the Carians had been gathered together there, among many
other counsels which were given, the best, as it seems to me, was that
of Pixodaros the son of Mausolos, a man of Kindye, who was married to
the daughter of the king of the Kilikians, Syennesis. The opinion
of this man was to the effect that the Carians should cross over the
Maiander and engage battle with the Persians having the river at their
backs, in order that the Carians, not being able to fly backwards and
being compelled to remain where they were, might prove themselves even
better men in fight than they naturally would. This opinion did not
prevail; but they resolved that the Persians rather than themselves
should have the Maiander at their backs, evidently 92 in order that if
there should be a flight of the Persians and they should be worsted in
the battle, they might never return home, but might fall into the river.

119. After this, when the Persians had come and had crossed the
Maiander, the Carians engaged with the Persians on the river Marsyas and
fought a battle which was obstinately contested and lasted long; but at
length they were worsted by superior numbers: and of the Persians there
fell as many as two thousand, but of the Carians ten thousand. Then
those of them who escaped were shut up in Labraunda 93 within
the sanctuary of Zeus Stratios, which is a large sacred grove of
plane-trees; now the Carians are the only men we know who offer
sacrifices to Zeus Stratios. These men then, being shut up there, were
takin