in another
manner: but Artayctes with his companions, who started on their flight
later and were overtaken at a little distance above Aigospotamoi,
defended themselves for a considerable time and were some of them
killed and others taken alive: and the Hellenes had bound these and were
bringing them to Sestos, and among them Artayctes also in bonds together
with his son..

120. Then, it is said by the men of the Chersonese, as one of those who
guarded them was frying dried fish, a portent occurred as follows,--the
dried fish when laid upon the fire began to leap and struggle just as
if they were fish newly caught: and the others gathered round and were
marvelling at the portent, but Artayctes seeing it called to the man who
was frying the fish and said: "Stranger of Athens, be not at all afraid
of this portent, seeing that it has not appeared for thee but for me.
Protesilaos who dwells at Elaius signifies thereby that though he is
dead and his body is dried like those fish, 120 yet he has power given
him by the gods to exact vengeance from the man who does him wrong. Now
therefore I desire to impose this penalty for him, 121--that in place
of the things which I took from the temple I should pay down a hundred
talents to the god, and moreover as ransom for myself and my son I will
pay two hundred talents to the Athenians, if my life be spared." Thus he
engaged to do, but he did not prevail upon the commander Xanthippos; for
the people of Elaius desiring to take vengeance for Protesilaos asked
that he might be put to death, and the inclination of the commander
himself tended to the same conclusion. They brought him therefore to
that headland to which Xerxes made the passage across, or as some say to
the hill which is over the town of Madytos, and there they nailed him to
boards 122 and hung him up; and they stoned his son to death before the
eyes of Artayctes himself..

121. Having so done, they sailed away to Hellas, taking with them,
besides other things, the ropes also of the bridges, in order to
dedicate them as offerings in the temples: and for that year nothing
happened further than this.

122. Now a forefather of this Artayctes who was hung up, was that
Artembares who set forth to the Persians a proposal which they took up
and brought before Cyrus, being to this effect: "Seeing that Zeus
grants to the Persians leadership, and of all men to thee, O Cyrus, by
destroying Astyages, come, since the land we possess is