ing detained at Susa. He had
great hopes then that if a revolt occurred he would be let go to
the sea-coast; but if no change was made at Miletos 2001 he had no
expectation of ever returning thither again.

36. Accordingly Hisiaios with this intention was sending the messenger;
and it chanced that all these things happened to Aristagoras together at
the same time. He took counsel therefore with his partisans, declaring
to them both his own opinion and the message from Hisiaios; and while
all the rest expressed an opinion to the same effect, urging him namely
to make revolt, Hecataios the historian urged first that they should not
undertake war with the king of the Persians, enumerating all the nations
over whom Dareios was ruler, and his power: and when he did not succeed
in persuading him, he counselled next that they should manage to make
themselves masters of the sea. Now this, he continued, could not come
to pass in any other way, so far as he could see, for he knew that the
force of the Milesians was weak, but if the treasures should be taken
21 which were in the temple at Branchidai, which Croesus the Lydian
dedicated as offerings, he had great hopes that they might become
masters of the sea; and by this means they would not only themselves
have wealth at their disposal, but the enemy would not be able to carry
the things off as plunder. Now these treasures were of great value, as
I have shown in the first part of the history. 22 This opinion did not
prevail; but nevertheless it was resolved to make revolt, and that one
of them should sail to Myus, to make the force which had returned from
Naxos and was then there, and endeavour to seize the commanders who
sailed in the ships.

37. So Iatragoras was sent for this purpose and seized by craft Oliatos
the son of Ibanollis of Mylasa, and Histiaios the son of Tymnes of
Termera, and Coes the son of Erxander, to whom Dareios had given
Mytilene as a gift, and Aristagoras the son of Heracleides of Kyme, and
many others; and then Aristagoras openly made revolt and devised all
that he could to the hurt of Dareios. And first he pretended to resign
the despotic power and give to Miletos equality, 23 in order that
the Milesians might be willing to revolt with him: then afterwards he
proceeded to do this same thing in the rest of Ionia also; and some of
the despots he drove out, but those whom he had taken from the ships
which had sailed with him to Naxis, these he surrendered,