Histories

Herodotus

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

But when the Chians entered the lands of Ephesus [27.316,37.916] (deserted settlement), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Ephesus on their march, they came by night while the women were celebrating the Thesmophoria; then the Ephesians, never having heard the story of the Chians and seeing an army invading their country, were fully persuaded that these were robbers come after their women; so they mustered all their force and killed the Chians.

So these men met with such a fate. As for Dionysius the Phocaean, when he saw that the Ionian cause was lost, he sailed away with the three enemy ships that he had captured; but not to Foca [26.75,38.666] (inhabited place), Izmir Ili, Ege kiyilari, Turkey, Asia Phocaea, now that he knew well that it would be enslaved with the rest of Ionia (region (general)), Europe Ionia; he right away sailed straight to Phoenicia (region (general)), Asia Phoenicia instead, sunk some merchant ships, took a lot of money, and sailed to Sicily [14,37.5] (region), Italy, Europe Sicily; from this base he set himself up as a pirate, robbing Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, but no Greeks.

When the Persians had conquered the Ionians by sea, they laid siege to Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus by sea and land, mining the walls and using every device against it, until they utterly captured it in the sixth year after the revolt of Aristagoras.[*](In 494.) They enslaved the city, and thus the calamity agreed with the oracle concerning Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus.