ving received ships from the Lesbians
he conquered Lemnos and Imbros, which were both at that time still
inhabited by Pelasgians.

27. Of these the Lemnians fought well, and defending themselves for a
long time were at length brought to ruin; 13 and over those of them
who survived the Persians set as governor Lycaretos the brother of that
Maiandrios who had been king of Samos. This Lycaretos ruled in Lemnos
till his death. And the cause of it 14 was this:--he continued to
reduce all to slavery and subdue them, accusing some of desertion to the
Scythians and others of doing damage to the army of Dareios as it was
coming back from Scythia.

28. Otanes then effected so much when he was made commander: and after
this for a short time there was an abatement 15 of evils; and then again
evils began a second time to fall upon the Ionians, arising from Naxos
and Miletos. For Naxos was superior to all the other islands in wealth,
and Miletos at the same time had just then come to the very height of
its prosperity and was the ornament 16 of Ionia; but before these events
for two generations of men it had been afflicted most violently by
faction until the Parians reformed it; for these the Milesians chose of
all the Hellenes to be reformers of their State.

29. Now the Parians thus reconciled their factions:--the best men of
them came to Miletos, and seeing that the Milesians were in a grievously
ruined state, they said that they desired to go over their land: and
while doing this and passing through the whole territory of Miletos,
whenever they saw in the desolation of the land any field that was well
cultivated, they wrote down the name of the owner of that field. Then
when they had passed through the whole land and had found but few of
such men, as soon as they returned to the city they called a general
gathering and appointed these men to manage the State, whose fields they
had found well cultivated; for they said that they thought these men
would take care of the public affairs as they had taken care of their
own: and the rest of the Milesians, who before had been divided by
factions, they commanded to be obedient to these men.

30. The Parians then had thus reformed the Milesians; but at the time of
which I speak evils began to come to Ionia from these States 17 in the
following manner:--From Naxos certain men of the wealthier class 18 were
driven into exile by the people, and having gone into exile they
arrived at Mileto