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Then Megabates, 1 bringing Aristagoras from Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, but when he came to +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios, he put in with his ships at Caucasa 2 so that he might cross with a north wind to +Nisos Naxos [25.583,32.33] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Naxos.
Then Megabates, 1 bringing Aristagoras from Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus, the Ionian army, and the Naxians, pretended to be sailing to the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, but when he came to +Khios [26.116,38.383] (inhabited place), Chios, Khios, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Chios, he put in with his ships at Caucasa 2 so that he might cross with a north wind to +Nisos Naxos [25.583,32.33] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Naxos.
[2] Since it was not fated that the
Naxians were to be destroyed by this force, the following things took place. As
Megabates was making his rounds among the ships' watches, it chanced that there was no watch on the ship of
+Myndus [27.25,37.0667] (Perseus) Myndus.
Megabates, very angry at this, ordered his guards to find the captain of this ship, whose name was
Scylax, and thrust him partly through an oar-hole of the ship and bound him there so that his head was outside the ship and his body inside.
[3] When
Scylax had been bound, someone brought word to
Aristagoras, that his
Myndian friend was bound and being disgracefully treated by
Megabates.
Aristagoras then went and pleaded with the
Persian for
Scylax, but since he obtained nothing that he requested, he went and released the man himself. When
Megabates learned this, he took it very badly and was angry at
Aristagoras.
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Aristagoras, however, said, “But you, what have you to do with these matters? Did not
Artaphrenes send you to obey me and to sail wherever I bid you? Why are you so meddlesome?” This response on the part of
Aristagoras enraged
Megabates, who, went night fell, sent men in a boat to
+Nisos Naxos [25.583,32.33] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Naxos to tell the
Naxians of the trouble in store for them.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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