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arrounding a temple of Jupiter Stratius. The Cari-
une are the only people, as far as I am able to learn,
jrho sacrifice to this Jupiter. Driven to the above ex-
.remity, they deliberated among themselves, whether
it would be better to surrender themselves to the Per­
sians, or finally to relinquish Asia.

CXX. In the midst of their consultation, the Mile-
Bians with their allies arrived to reinforce them; the
Carians resumed their courage, and again prepared
for hostilities; they a second time advanced to meet
the Persians, and after an engagement more obstinate
than the former, sustained a second defeat, in which a
prodigious number, chiefly of Milesians, were slain.

CXXI. The Carians soon recruited their forces, and
in a subsequent action somewhat repaired their former
losses. Receiving intelligence that the Persians were
on their march to attack their towns, they placed
themselves in ambuscade, in the road to Pidasus.
The Persians by night fell into the snare, and a vast
number were slain, with their generals Daurises,
Amorges, and Sisimaces; Myrses, the son of Gyges,
was also of the number.

CXXII. The conduct of this ambuscade was in­
trusted to Heraclides, son of Ibanolis, a Mylassian.
The event has been related. Hymees, who was en­
gaged among others in the pursuit of the Ionians, af­
ter the affair of Sardis, turning towards the Propon-
tis, took Cios, a Mysian city. Receiving intelligence
that Daurises had quitted the Hellespont, to march
against Caria, he left the Propontis, and proceeded to
the Hellespont, where he effectually reduced all the
Colians of the Trojan district; he vanquished also
the Gergithte, a remnant of the ancient Teucri. Hy­
mees himself, after all these successes, died at Troas.

CXXIII. Artaphernes, governor of Sardis, and
Otanes, the third in command, received orders to lead
their forces to Ionia and ^Eolia, which is contiguous
to it; they made themselves masters of Clazomensj in
Ionia, and of Cyma an vEolian city.

CXXIV. After the capture of these places, Arista-
goras of Miletus, though the author of all the confu­
sion in which Ionia had been involved, betrayed a