Histories

Coes, when the Mytilenaeans received him, was taken out and stoned, but the Cymaeans, as well as most of the others, let their own man go.

In this way, then, an end was made of tyrants in the cities. After doing away with the tyrants, Aristagoras of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus ordered all the peoples to set up governors in each city. Then he went on an embassy in a trireme to Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon, for it was necessary for him to find some strong ally.[*](Aristagoras went to Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon in 499.)

At Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta, Anaxandrides the son of Leon, who had been king, was now no longer alive but was dead, and Cleomenes son of Anaxandrides held the royal power. This he had won not by manly merit but by right of birth. Anaxandrides had as his wife his own sister's daughter, and although he was content with her, no children were born to him.