ad {epi Mulasoisi}, others {epi Pedaso}.]

96 [ {egkerasamenos pregmata megala}.]

97 [ {andros logopoiou}

BOOK VI. THE SIXTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED ERATO

1. Aristagoras accordingly, after having caused Ionia to revolt, thus
brought his life to an end; and meanwhile Histiaios the despot of
Miletos, having been let go by Dareios had arrived at Sardis: and when
he came from Susa, Artaphrenes the governor of Sardis asked him for what
reason he supposed the Ionians had revolted; and he said that he could
not tell, and moreover he expressed wonder at that which had happened,
pretending that he knew nothing of the state of affairs. Then
Artaphrenes seeing that he was using dissimulation said, having
knowledge of the truth about the revolt: "Thus it is with thee,
Histiaios, about these matters,--this shoe was stitched by thee, and put
on by Aristagoras.".

2. Thus said Artaphrenes with reference to the revolt; and Histiaios
fearing Artaphrenes because he understood the matter, ran away the
next night at nightfall and went to the sea-coast, having deceived king
Dareios, seeing that he had engaged to subdue Sardinia the largest of
islands, and instead of that he was endeavouring to take upon himself
leadership of the Ionians in the war against Dareios. Then having
crossed over to Chios he was put in bonds by the Chians, being accused
by them of working for a change of their State by suggestion of Dareios.
When however the Chians learnt the whole story and heard that he was an
enemy to the king, they released him..

3. Then Histiaios, being asked by the Ionians for what reason he had so
urgently charged Aristagoras to revolt from the king and had wrought so
great an evil for the Ionians, did not by any means declare to them
that which had been in truth the cause, but reported to them that king
Dareios had resolved to remove the Phenicians from their land and to
settle them in Ionia, and the Ionians in Phenicia; and for this reason,
he said, he had given the charge. Thus he attempted to alarm the
Ionians, although the king had never resolved to do so at all.

4. After this Histiaios acting through a messenger, namely Hermippos
a man of Atarneus, sent papers to the Persians who were at Sardis,
implying that he had already talked matters over with them about a
revolt: and Hermippos did not deliver them to those to whom he was sent,
but bore the papers and put them into the hands of Artaphrenes. He then,
perc