After giving this order, he called before him Histiaeus the Milesian, whom Darius had kept with him for a long time now, and said, “I hear, Histiaeus, that the viceregent whom you put in charge of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus has done me wrong. He has brought men from the mainland overseas, and persuaded certain Ionians—who shall yet pay me the penalty for their deeds—to follow them and has robbed me of Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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