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 202 HISTORY OF GREECE. trict on the continent over against the island of Lesbos) as pur. chase-money. Paktyas was thus seized and sent prisoner to Cyrus, who had given the most express orders for this capture : hence the unusual intensity of the pursuit. But it appears that the territory of Atarneus was considered as having been igno- miniously acquired by the Chians ; none even of their own citizens would employ any article of its produce for holy or sacrificial purposes. 1 Mazares next proceeded to the attack and conquest of the Greeks on the coast ; an enterprise which, since he soon died of illness, was completed by his successor Harpagus. The towns assailed successively made a reliant but ineffectual resistance; the Persian general by hi? v umbers drove the defenders within their walls, against which LK. piled up mounds of earth, so as either to carry the place by storm or to compel surrender. All of them were reduced, one after the other : with all, the terms of subjection were doubtless harder than those which had been im- posed upon them by Croesus, because Cyrus had already refused to grant these terms to them, with the single exception of Mile- tus, and because they had since given additional offence by aid- ing the revolt of Paktyas. The inhabitants of Priene were sold into slavery: they were the first assailed by Mazares, and had perhaps been especially forward in the attack made by Paktyas on Sardis. 2 Among these unfortunate towns, thus changing their master and passing out into a harsher subjection, two deserve especial notice, Teos and Phokaea. The citizens of the former, so soon 1 Herodot. i. 160. The short fragment from Charon of Lampsakus, which Plutarch (De Malignitat. Herod, p. 859) cites here, in support of one among his many unjust censures on Herodotus, is noway inconsistent with the statement of the latter, but rather tends to confirm it. In writing this treatise on the alleged ill-temper of Herodotus, we see that Plutarch had before him the history of Charon of Lampsakus, more ancient by one generation than the historian whom he was assailing, and also belonging to Asiatic Greece. Of course, it suited the purpose of his vrork to produce all the contradictions to Herodotus which he could find in Charon : the fact that he has produced none of any moment, tends to ttrengthcn our faith in the historian of Halikarnassus, and to show that in t' .e main his narrative wss in accordance with that of Charon.
 * Herodot. i, 161-169.