494)--Miletus, the capital of Ionia--the mother of a hundred colonies! Pittacus, Thales, Arctinus, were among the great names she gave to science and to song.

Worthy of her renown, she fell amid the ruins of that freedom which she showed how nobly she could have continued to adorn by proving how sternly she could defend.

The greater part of the citizens were slain--those who remained, with the women and the children, were borne into slavery by the victors.

Their valour and renown touched the heart of Darius, and he established the captives in a city by that part of the Erythraean Sea which receives the waters of the Barbarian Tigris.

Their ancient territories were portioned out between the Persians and the Carians of Pedasa.
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