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 27, 28] CAPTURE OF lASUS 355 Argives, hurrying away from Samos in a rage after their disaster, went home. At dawn the Peloponnesians sailed from Teichiussa, and 28 on their arrival at Miletus found that 7-, r>,. 1 lie 1 ciopoitiicsians the Athenians had left : after remaining at the suggestion of one day, on the morrow they took the Tissaphcmes attack and Chian ships which under the command ." ^ T''^' "'°*'S^^ ^ ts made prisoner. Peda- of Chalcideus had previously been ritus sets out for Chios, chased into Miletus'', and resolved to of ivhtck he had been go back to Teichiussa and fetch that "PPo">ted governor. part of the tackle of which they had lightened the ships. There they found Tissaphernes, who had come with his infantry ; he persuaded them to sail against lasus, in which his enemy Amorges lay. So they attacked lasus, which they took by a sudden assault ; for it never occurred to the inhabitants that their ships were not Athenian. The S3Tacusans distinguished themselves greatly in the action. The Peloponnesians took captive Amorges the natural son of Pissuthnes, who had rebelled, and gave him to Tissaphernes, that, if he liked, he might convey him to the King in obedience to the royal command ' They then plundered lasus, and the army obtained a great deal of treasure ; for the city had been rich from early times. They did no harm to the mercenaries of Amorges, but received them into their own ranks ; for most of them came from Peloponnesus. The town, and all their prisoners, whether bond or free, were delivered by them into the hands of Tissaphernes, who engaged to give them a Daric stater <= for each man; they then returned to Miletus. Thence they despatched by land as far as Erythrae Peda- ritus the son of Leon, whom the Lacedaemonians had sent out to be governor of Chios ; he was escorted by the mercenaries who had been in the service of Amorges. To remain on the spot, and take charge of Miletus, they appointed Philip. So the summer ended. drachmae, about 13s. ^d.
 * Cp. viii. 17 fin. '' Cp. viii. 5 fin. •= Twenty Attic