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 ^80 HISTORY OF GREECE. Miltiades, 1 have anticipated a little on the course of events, bfr cause that conquest, though coinciding in point of time with the Ionic revolt (which will be recounted in the following ihap ter), and indirectly caused by it, in so far as it occupied the atten- tion of the Persians, lies entirely apart from the operations of the revolted lonians. When Miltiades was driven out of the Cher- sonese by the Persians, on the suppression of the Ionic revolt,, his fame, derived from having subdued Lemnos, 1 contributed both to neutralize the enmity which he had incurred as governor of the Chersonese, and to procure his election as one of the ten generals for the year of the Marathonian combat. CHAPTER XXXV. IONIC REVOLT. HITHERTO, the history of the Asiatic Greeks has flowed in a stream distinct from that of the European Greeks. The present chapter will mark the period of confluence between the two. At the time when Darius quitted Sardis on his return to Susa, carrying with him the Milesian Histiaaus. he left Artaphernes, his brother, as satrap of Sardis, invested with the supreme com- mand of Western Asia Minor. The Grecian cities on the coast, comprehended under his satrapy, appear to have been chiefly governed by native despots in each ; and Miletus especially, in the absence of Histiasus, was ruled by his son-in-law Aristagoras. That city was now in the height of power and prosperity, in every respect the leading city of Ionia. The return of Darius to Susa may be placed seemingly about 512 B.C., from which time forward the state of things above described continued, with- out, disturbance, for eight or ten years, "a respite from suffer- ing," to use the significant phrase of the historian. 2 1 Herodot. vi, 136.
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