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 FOURTH YEAR OF THE WAR -REVOLT 01 MITYLENE. 243 attacked the fortification while the garrison were relying on the armistice, carried it by storm, and put to death both the Arca- dians and the Persians who were found within. Having got pos- session of the fortification, he next brought Hippias again into it, "safe and sound," according to the terms of the convention, which was thus literally performed, and then immediately after- wards caused him to be shot with arrows and javelins. Of this species of fraud, founded on literal performance and real viola- tion of an agreement, there are various examples in Grecian history ; but nowhere do we read of a more flagitious combina- tion of deceit and cruelty than the behavior of Paches at No- tium. How it was noticed at Athens, we do not know : but wo may remark, not without surprise, that Thucydides recounts it plainly and calmly without a single word of comment. 1 Notium was separated from Kolophon, and placed in posses- sion of those Kolophonians who were opposed to the Persian supremacy in the upper town. But as it had been down to this time a mere appendage of Kolophon and not a separate town, the Athenians soon afterwards sent rekists and performed for it the ceremonies of colonization according to their own laws and customs, inviting from every quarter the remaining exiles of Kolophon. 2 Whether any new settlers went from Athens itself, we do not know : but the step was intended to confer a sort of Hellenic citizenship, and recognized collective personality, on the new-born town of Notium ; without which, neither its theory or solemn deputation would have been admitted to offer public sac- rifice, nor its private citizens to contend for the prize, at Olympic and other great festivals. Having cleared the Asiatic waters from the enemies of Athens, Paches returned to Lesbos, reduced the towns of Pyrrha and Eresus, and soon found himself so completely master both of Mitylene and the whole island, as to be able to send home the larger part of his force ; carrying with them as prisoners those Mitylenaeaus who had been deposited in Tenedos, as well as others, prominently implicated in the late revolt, to the number altogether of rather more than a thousand. The Lacedaemonian 1 Thucj-l. iii, 34.
 * Thucjd. iii, 34 ; C. A. Pertz, Colophoniaca, p. 36. ( Gottingen, 1348.)