Histories

Thus it fared with Histiaeus. The Persian fleet wintered at Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, and putting out to sea in the next year easily subdued the islands that lie off the mainland, Chios [26,38.366] (island), Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, EuropeChios and Lesbos [26.333,39.166] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lesbos and Tenedos [26.05,39.8167] (Perseus)Tenedos. Whenever they took an island, the foreigners would (net) the people.

This is the manner of their doing it: the men link hands and make a line reaching from the northern sea to the southern, and then advance over the whole island hunting the people down. They also captured the Ionian cities of the mainland in the same way, but not by netting the people; for that was not possible.

Then the Persian generals were not false to the threats they had made against the Ionians when they were encamped opposite them. When they had gained mastery over the cities, they chose out the most handsome boys and castrated them, making them eunuchs instead of men, and they carried the fairest maidens away to the king; they did all this, and they burnt the cities with their temples. Thus three times had the Ionians been enslaved, first by the Lydians and now twice in a row by the Persians.