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 502 HISTORY OF GREECE. me : and I pledge myself, if the gods only bold an equal bai ance, that your enemies either will not fight, or will bt severely beaten." 1 The wisdom of this advice was so apparent, that the lonians, quitting their comfortable tents on the shore of Lade and going on board their ships, submitted themselves to the continuous nau- tical labors and manreuvres imposed upon them by Dionysius. The rowers, and the hoplites on the deck, were exercised in their separate functions, and even when they were not so employed, the ships were kept at anchor, and the crews on board, instead of on shore ; so that the work lasted all day long, under a hot sum- mer's sun. Such labor, new to the Ionian crews, was endured for seven successive days, after which they broke out with one accord into resolute mutiny and refusal : " Which of the gods have we offended, to bring upon ourselves such a retribution as this ? madmen as we are, to put ourselves into the hands of this Phokaean braggart, who has furnished only three ships ! 2 He has now got us. and is ruining us without remedy : many of us are already sick, many others are sickening ; we had better make up our minds to Persian slavery, or any other mischiefs, rather than go on with these present sufferings. Come, we will net obey this man any longer." And they forthwith refused to ex- ecute his orders, resuming their tents on shore, with the enjoy- ments of shade, rest, and inactive talk, as before. I have not chosen to divest this instructive scene of the dra- matic liveliness with which it is given in Herodotus, the more so as it has all the air of reality, and as Hekatseus, the historian, was probably present in the island of Lade, and may have de- scribed what he actually saw and heard. When we see the in- 1 Herodot. vi, 11. 'E;ri S;vpov yap ax/iyf s^srai i/iuv TU Trprjyi 'luvff, 7J ilvai k^vdepOLaL q Sovhoict, K.CU TOVTOLGI die dpriTterriaf viiv uv fyteeC, T]V /J.EV (3ovA7ia& TaZanrupiaf EvdtKecrdai, TO Trapaxpfj/ia fiev -rcovof iifj.l' sjrat, oloi TE 6s eaeads, inrepjJaf.'XofiEvoi. TOV ivavriovf, eivai ?.ev-&e- poi, etc. fifvoi TE Ta^anrupiriai TE Kal ^f/Uu> eAefav Trpdf EuvTovr TU Je Tiv vav irapaj3uvTc, Tads dvaTT^uTT/la/zfv, OITIVE^ Trapa<ppovijaavT, vavTef EK TOV voov, uvSpl QuKdEei u%.a6vi, irapExofievu vsaf ipel-, extrpr* fayre? riveac avroi)? 1% iev, err,.
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