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 MILETUS TAKEN BY THE PERSIANS. 3Q5 error they were attacked by the Ephesians and slain. 1 It would seem from this incident that the Ephesians had taken no part in the Ionic revolt, nor are they mentioned amidst the various con- tingents. Nor is anything said either of Kolophon, or Lebedus, or Erse. 2 The Phokaean Dionysius, perceiving that the defeat of Lade was the ruin of the Ionic cause, and that his native city was again doomed to Persian subjection, did not think it prudent even to return home. Immediately after the battle he set sail, not for Phokrea, but for the Phenician coast, at this moment stripped of its protecting cruisers. He seized several Phenician merchant- men, out of which considerable profit was obtained : then setting sail for Sicily, he undertook the occupation of a privateer against the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians, abstaining from injury to- wards Greeks. 3 Such an employment seems then to have been perfectly admissible. A considerable body of Samians also mi- grated to Sicily, indignant at the treachery of their admirals in the battle, and yet more indignant at the approaching restoration of their despot jEakes. How these Samian emigrants became established in the Sicilian town of Zankle, 4 I shall mention as a part of the course of Sicilian events, which will come here- after. The victory of Lade enabled the Persians to attack Miletus by sea as well as by land ; they prosecuted the siege with the utmost vigor, by undermining the walls, and by various engines of attack: in which department their resources seem to have been enlarged since the days of Harpagus. In no long time the city was taken by storm, and miserable was the fate reserved to it. The adult male population was chiefly slain ; while such of them as were preserved, together with the women and children, were sent in a body to Susa, to await the orders of Darius, who assigned to them a residence at Ampe, not far from the mouth of the Tigris. The temple at Branchidoe was burned and pillaged, as H skatjcus had predicted at the beginning of the revolt : the 1 Herodot. vi. 16. 2 Thucyd. viii, 14 3 Herodot. vi 17. ^.TjiaTrjc KartaTqvtE 'EA^i/yv fiev ovdevbf, K Kal Tvpaijv&v. VOL. rv. 20oc.
 * Herodot. vi, 22-25.