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Overthrow of the Tyrants 153
So latragoras was sent for this purpose and seized by
craft Oliatus the son of Ibanollis of Mylasa, and Histiaeus
the son of Tymnes of Termera, and Goes the son of
Erxander, to whom Darius had given Mytilene as a gift,
and Aristagoras the son of Heracleides of Cyme, and many
others; and then Aristagoras openly made revolt and devised
all that he could to the hurt of Darius. And first
he pretended to resign the despotic power and give to
Miletus equality, in order that the JMilesians might be
willing to revolt with him; then afterward he proceeded
to do this same thing in the rest of Ionia too; and some
of the despots he drove out, but those whom he had taken
from» the ships which had sailed with him to Naxos, these
he surrendered, because he desired to do a pleasure to
their cities, delivering them over severally to that city from
which each one came.
Now the men of Mytilene, as soon as they received
Goes into their hands, brought him out and stoned him
to death; but the men of Gyme let their tyrant go, and so
also most of the others let theirs go. Thus then the tyrants
were deposed in the various cities;
and Aristagoras
the Milesian, after having deposed them, bade each people
appoint commanders in their several cities, and then himself
set forth as an envoy to Lacedaemon ; for in truth it
was necessary that he should find out some powerful
alliance. , . .
Beginning of
the revolt.
Hdt. V. 37 f-
Greece, iir-6;
Ancient
World, 160-4.
Fall of the
Ionian
tyrants.
II.
The Attempt to Win Allies
However, Aristagoras, the tyrant of Miletus, arrived
at Sparta while Gleomenes was reigning; and accordingly
with him he came to speech, having, as the Lacedaemonians
say, a tablet of bronze, on which was engraved a
map of the whole Earth, with all the sea and all the rivers.
Aristagoras
at Sparta,
winter of
499-498.
Hdt. V. 49.