Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

The Milesians, as I have already said, made a treaty with Cyrus himself and struck no blow. Thus Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia was enslaved for the second time: and when Harpagus had conquered the Ionians of the mainland, the Ionians of the islands, fearing the same fate, surrendered to Cyrus.

When the Ionians, despite their evil plight, nonetheless assembled at the Panionion [27.1167,37.6833] (Perseus) Panionion, Bias of Priene [27.2833,37.6333] (Perseus)Priene, I have learned, gave them very useful advice, and had they followed it they might have been the most prosperous of all Greeks: