Thus, then, it went with the Ionian Phocaea. The Teians did the same things as the Phocaeans: when Harpagus had taken their walled city by building an earthwork, they all embarked aboard ship and sailed away for Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace. There they founded a city, Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus)Abdera, which before this had been founded by Timesius of Klazomenai [26.7833,38.3167] (Perseus)Clazomenae; yet he got no profit of it, but was driven out by the Thracians. This Timesius is now honored as a hero by the Teians of Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus) Abdera.

These were the only Ionians who left their native lands, unable to endure slavery. The rest of the Ionians, except the Milesians, though they faced Harpagus in battle as did the exiles, and conducted themselves well, each fighting for his own country, yet, when they were defeated and their cities taken, they remained where they were and did as they were told.

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:

for he advised them to put out to sea and sail all together to Sardo and then found one city for all Ionians: thus, possessing the greatest island in the world and ruling others, they would be rid of slavery and have prosperity; but if they stayed in Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia he could see (he said) no hope of freedom for them.