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 298 HISTORY OF GREECE. At first, Darius had been inclined to ascribe the movement in Ionia to the secret instigation of Histiasus, whom he called into his presence and questioned. But the latter found means to sat- isfy him, and even to make out that no such mischief would have occurred, if he, Histiaeus, had been at Miletus instead of being detained at Susa. " Send me down to the spot, he asseverated, and I engage not merely to quell the revolt, and put into your hands the traitor who heads it, but also, not to take off this tunic from my body, before I shall have added to your empire the great island of Sardinia." An expedition to Sardinia, though never realized, appears to have been among the fa- vorite fancies of the Ionic Greeks of that day. 1 By such boasts and assurances he obtained his liberty, and went down to Sardis, promising to return as soon as he should have accom- plished them. 2 But on reaching Sardis he found the satrap Artaphcrnes bet ter informed than the Great King at Susa. Though Histiaeus, when questioned as to the causes which had brought on the out- break, affected nothing but ignorance and astonishment, Arta- phernes detected his evasions, and said : " I will tell you how the facts stand, Histiaous : it is you that have stitched this shoe, and Aristagoras has put it on." 3 Such a declaration promised little security to the suspected Milesian who heard it ; and ac- cordingly, as soon as night arrived, he took to flight, went down to the coast, and from thence passed over to Chios. Here he found himself seized on the opposite count, as the confidant of Darius and the enemy of Ionia : he was released, however, on proclaiming himself not merely a fugitive escaping from Persian Custody, but also as the prime author of the Ionic revolt. And 1 Herodot. v, 107, vi, 2. Compare the advice of Bias of Priene to the lonians, when the Persian conqueror Cyras was approaching, to found a Tan-Ionic colony in Sardinia (Herodot. i, 170) : the idea started by Aris tagoras has been alluded to just above (Herodot. v, 124). Pausanias (iv, 23, 2) puts into the moiith of Mantiklus, son of Aristo- mene.*, a recommendation to the Messenians, when conquered a second tin* by the Spartans, to migrate to Sardinia. 1 Herodot. v, 106, 107. ), vrredr/craro 6e 'Aptara; opjji;.
 * Herodot. vi, 1. Oiiru rot, 'lariate, tyet. /card ravra r<) irpqypaTa row*