Histories

So the Cyprians, after winning freedom for a year, were enslaved once more.[*](In 497.)Daurises, Hymaees, and Otanes, all of them Persian generals and married to daughters of Darius, pursued those Ionians who had marched to Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis, and drove them to their ships. After this victory they divided the cities among themselves and sacked them.

Daurises made for the cities of the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and took Dardanus, +Abydus [26.416,40.2] (deserted settlement), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Abydus, Percote, +Lapseki [26.7,40.366] (inhabited place), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Lampsacus, and Paesus, each in a single day. Then as he marched from Paesus against Parius, news came to him that the Carians had made common cause with the Ionians and revolted from the Persians. For this reason he turned aside from the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont and marched his army to +Caria [28,37.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Caria.

It so happened that news of this was brought to the Carians before Daurises' coming, and when the Carians heard, they mustered at the place called the White Pillars by the river Marsyas [*](Modern Tshina; not to be confused with the better known Marsyas in Phrygia (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Phrygia, also a tributary of the +Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander.) which flows from the region of Idria and issues into the +Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander.

When they had gathered together, many plans were laid before them, the best of which, in my judgment, was that of Pixodarus of Cindya, the son of Mausolus and husband of the daughter of Syennesis, king of Cilicia [34.333,36.666] (region (general)), Turkey, AsiaCilicia. He proposed that the Carians should cross the +Buyukmenderes Nehri [27.183,37.466] (river), Turkey, Asia Maeander and fight with the river at their back, so that being unable to flee and compelled to stand their ground they might prove themselves even braver than nature made them.