We may well suppose that, high-born and wealthy, he lost no occasion of cementing his popularity in his native state.
XII.

Meanwhile, the Persians suspended for that year all further hostilities against the Ionians.

Artaphernes endeavoured to conciliate the subdued colonies by useful laws, impartial taxes, and benign recommendations to order and to peace.

The next year, however, that satrap was recalled (B.C.

492), and Mardonius, a very young noble, the son-in-law of Darius, was appointed, at the head of a considerable naval and military force, to the administration of the affairs in that part of the Persian empire.