CHAPTER IV.
Histiaeus, Tyrant of Miletus, removed to Persia .-- The Government of that City deputed to Aristagoras, who invades Naxos with the aid of the Persians .-- Ill Success of that Expedition .-- Aristagoras resolves upon Revolting from the Persians .-- Repairs to Sparta and to Athens .-- The Athenians and Eretrians induced to assist the Ionians .-- Burning of Sardis .-- The Ionian War .-- The Fate of Aristagoras .-- Naval Battle of Lade .-- Fall of Miletus .-- Reduction of Ionia .-- Miltiades .-- His Character .-- Mardonius replaces Artaphernes in the Lydian Satrapy .-- Hostilities between Aegina and Athens .-- Conduct of Cleomenes .-- Demaratus deposed .-- Death of Cleomenes .-- New Persian Expedition.
I.

We have seen that Darius rewarded with a tributary command the services of Grecian nobles during his Scythian expedition.

The most remarkable of these deputy tyrants was Histiaeus, the tyrant of Miletus.

Possessed of that dignity prior to his connexion with Darius, he had received from the generosity of the monarch a tract of land near the river Strymon, in Thrace, sufficing for the erection of a city called Myrcinus.

To his cousin, Aristagoras, he committed the government of Miletus--repaired to his new possession, and employed himself actively in the foundations of a colony which promised to be one of the most powerful that Miletus had yet established.