214 TERPSICHORE.

liberties for the space of a year, were a second time
reduced to servitude. All the Ionians who had been
engaged in the expedition against Sardis, were after­
wards vigorously attacked by Daurises, Hymees,
Otanes, and other Persian generals, each of whom had
married a daughter of Darius: they first drove them
to their ships, then took and plundered their towns,
which they divided among themselves.

CXVII. Daurises afterwards turned his arms against
the cities of the Hellespont, and in as many succes­
sive days made himself master of Abydos, Percotes,
Lampsacus and Paeson. From this latter place ha
proceeded to Parion, but learning on his march, that
the Carians, taking part with the Ionians, had revolt­
ed from Persia, he turned aside from the Hellespont,
and led his forces against Caria.

CXVIII. The Carians had early information of this
motion of Daurises, in consequence of which they
assembled at a place called the White Columns, not
far from the river Marsyas, which, passing through
the district of Hidryas, flows into the Maeander. Va­
rious sentiments were on this occasion delivered: but
the most sagacious in my estimation was that of Pix-
odarus, son of Mausolus; he was a native of Cindys,
and had married the daughter of Syennesis, prince of
Cilicia. He advised, that passing the Majander, they
should attack the enemy, with the river in their rear;
that thus deprived of all possibility of retreat, they
should from compulsion stand their ground, and make
the greater exertions of valour. This advice was not
accepted; they chose rather that the Persians should
have the Mseander behind them, that if they van­
quished the enemy in the field, they might afterwards
drive them into the river.

CX1X. The Persians advanced and passed the
Maeander; the Carians met them on the banks of the
Marsyas, when a severe and well-fought contest en­
sued. The Persians had so greatly the advantage in
point of number, that they were finally victorious; two
thousand Persians and ten thousand Carians fell in the
battle; they who escaped from the field fled to La-
branda, and took refuge in a sacred wood of planes,