(), of Mytilene, attended Dareius Hystaspis in his
Scythian expedition (see Clinton, F. H. ii. p. 313) as commander of the
Mytilenaeans, and dissuaded the king from breaking up his bridge of boats over the Danube, and
so cutting off his own retreat. For this good counsel he was rewarded by Dareius on his return
with the tyranny of Mytilene. In B. C. 501, when the lonians had
been instigated to revolt by Aristagoras, Coes, with several of the other tyrants, was seized
by latragoras at Myus, where the Persian fleet that had been engaged at Naxos was lying. They
were delivered up to the people of their several cities, and most of them were allowed to go
uninjured into exile; but Coes, on the contrary, was stoned to death by the Mytilenaeans.
(Hdt. 4.97, 5.11, 37, 38.)