Histories

They were already in +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios, when a great host of Persian horsemen came after them in pursuit. Unable to overtake them, the Persians sent to +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios, commanding the Paeonians to go back. The Paeonians would not consent to this, but were brought from +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios by the Chians to +Lesbos [26.333,39.166] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lesbos and carried by the Lesbians to Doriscus, from where they made their way by land to Paeonia.

The Athenians came with their twenty ships as well as five triremes of the Eretrians who came to the war to please not the Athenians but the Milesians themselves, thereby repaying their debt (for the Milesians had once been the allies of the Eretrians in the war against +Chalcis [23.6083,38.4667] (Perseus) Chalcis, when the Samians came to aid the Chalcidians against the Eretrians and Milesians). When these, then, and the rest of the allies had arrived, Aristagoras planned a march against Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis.

He himself did not go with the army but remained at Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, and appointed others to be generals of the Milesians, namely his own brother Charopinus and another citizen named Hermophantus.