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 306 HISTORY OF GREECE. large treasures therein contained must have gone far to defraj the costs of the Persian army. The Milesian territory is said to have been altogether denuded of its former inhabitants, the Persians retaining for themselves the city with the plain adjoin- ing to it, and making over the mountainous portions to the Kari- ans of Pedasa. Some few of the Milesians found a place amonr the 'Simian emigrants to Sicily. 1 It is certain, however, that new Grecian inhabitants must have been subsequently admitted into Miletus ; for it appears ever afterwards as a Grecian town, though with diminished power and importance. The capture of Miletus, in the sixth year from the com- mencement of the revolt, 2 carried with it the rapid submission of 1 Herodot. vi, 18, 19, 20, 22. 'M.i^rjrof fisv vvv 'Mi^qaiuv iipjjftuTo. 2 Hcrodot. vi, 18, aipeovai /car' U.KPTJC, iv ru *x-r) ETEI u~o Tijf uTroaruaiof rfif 'ApiGTayopeu. This is almost the only distinct chronological state- ment which we find in Herodotus respecting the Ionic revolt. The other evidences of time in his chapters are more or less equivocal : nor is there sufficient testimony before us to enable us to arrange the events, between the commencement of the Ionic revolt, and the battle of Marathon, into the precise years to which they belong. The battle of Marathon stands fixed for August or September, 490 B.C.: the siege of Miletus may prob- ably have been finished in 496-^95 B.C., and the Ionic revolt may have begun in 502-501 B.C. Such arc the dates which, on the whole, appear to me most probable, though I am far from considering them as certain. Chronological critics differ considerably in their arrangement of the events here alluded to among particular years. See Appendix, No. 5, p. 244, in Mr. Clinton's Fasti Hellenici ; Professor Schultz, Beytrage zu gen- aueren Zeitbestimmungen von der 63n znr 72n Olympiade. pp. 177-183, in the Kieler Philologische Studien ; and Weissenborn, Beytrage zur genauc- ren Erforschung der alien Griechischen Geschichte, Jena, 1S44. p. 87, seqq. .- not to mention Eeiz and Larcher. Mr. Clinton reckons only ten years from the beginning of the Ionic revolt to the battle of Marathon ; which appears to me too short ; though, on the other hand, the fourteen years reclamed by Larcher much more the sixteen years reckoned by Reiz are too long. Mr. Clinton compresses inconveniently the latter portion of the interval, that portion which elapsed between the siege of Miletus and the battle of Marathon. And the very improbable supposition to which he is obliged to resort, of a confusion in the language of Herodo tns between Attic and Olympic years, indicates that he is pressing the text of the historian too closely, when he states, " that Herodotus specifies a term of three years between the capture of Miletus, and the expedition of Dat.s:" see F H. ad ann. 499. He places the capture of Miletus in 404