he king, put him to death there and then,
and his body they impaled, but embalmed his head and brought it up to
Dareios at Susa. Dareios having been informed of this, found fault
with those who had done so, because they had not brought him up to his
presence alive; and he bade wash the head of Histiaios and bestow upon
it proper care, and then bury it, as that of one who had been greatly a
benefactor both of the king himself and of the Persians.

31. Thus it happened about Histiaios; and meanwhile the Persian fleet,
after wintering near Miletos, when it put to sea again in the following
year conquered without difficulty the islands lying near the mainland,
Chios, Lesbos, and Tenedos; and whenever they took one of the islands,
the Barbarians, as each was conquered, swept the inhabitants off it; 18
and this they do in the following manner:--they extend themselves from
the sea on the North to the sea on the South, each man having hold
of the hand of the next, and then they pass through the whole island
hunting the people out of it. They took also the Ionian cities on the
mainland in the same manner, except that they did not sweep off the
inhabitants thus, for it was not possible..

32. Then the commanders of the Persians proved not false to the threats
with which they had threatened the Ionians when these were encamped
opposite to them: for in fact when they conquered the cities, they chose
out the most comely of the boys and castrated them, making eunuchs of
them, and the fairest of the maidens they carried off by force to the
king; and not only this, but they also burnt the cities together with
the temples. Thus for the third time had the Ionians been reduced
to slavery, first by the Lydians and then twice in succession by the
Persians.

33. Departing from Ionia the fleet proceeded to conquer all the places
of the Hellespont on the left as one sails in, for those on the right
had been subdued already by the Persians themselves, approaching them by
land. Now the cities of the Hellespont in Europe are these:--first comes
the Chersonese, in which there are many cities, then Perinthos, the
strongholds of the Thracian border, Selymbria, and Byzantion. The people
of Byzantion and those of Calchedon opposite did not even wait for
the coming of the Persian ships, but had left their own land first and
departed, going within the Euxine; and there they settled in the city
of Mesambria. 19 So the Phenicians, having burnt these pla