yet having heard any of these things, but
supposing that some evil had fallen upon him, came running to his house;
and seeing his wife thus mutilated, forthwith upon this he took counsel
with his sons and set forth to go to Bactria together with his sons
and doubtless some others also, meaning to make the province of Bactria
revolt and to do the greatest possible injury to the king: and this in
fact would have come to pass, as I imagine, if he had got up to the land
of the Bactrians and Sacans before he was overtaken, for they were much
attached to him, and also he was the governor of the Bactrians: but
Xerxes being informed that he was doing this, sent after him an army as
he was on his way, and slew both him and his sons and his army. So far
of that which happened about the passion of Xerxes and the death of
Masistes.

114. Now the Hellenes who had set forth from Mycale to the Hellespont
first moored their ships about Lecton, being stopped from their voyage
by winds; and thence they came to Abydos and found that the bridges had
been broken up, which they thought to find still stretched across, and
on account of which especially they had come to the Hellespont. So the
Peloponnesians which Leotychides resolved to sail back to Hellas, while
the Athenians and Xanthippos their commander determined to stay behind
there and to make an attempt upon the Chersonese. Those then sailed
away, and the Athenians passed over from Abydos to the Chersonese and
began to besiege Sestos..

115. To this town of Sestos, since it was the greatest stronghold of
those in that region, men had come together from the cities which
lay round it, when they heard that the Hellenes had arrived at the
Hellespont, and especially there had come from the city of Cardia
Oiobazos a Persian, who had brought to Sestos the ropes of the bridges.
The inhabitants of the city were Aiolians, natives of the country, but
there were living with them a great number of Persians and also of their
allies..

116. And of the province Artayctes was despot, as governor under Xerxes,
a Persian, but a man of desperate and reckless character, who also had
practised deception upon the king on his march against Athens, in
taking away from Elaius the things belonging to Protesilaos the son
of Iphiclos. For at Elaius in the Chersonese there is the tomb of
Protesilaos with a sacred enclosure about it, where there were many
treasures, with gold and silver cups and bronze and raime